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Castro doubts over Cuban system

BBC UK > News Headlines - 4 hours 46 min ago
Cuba's Fidel Castro says the Cuban model no longer works in the latest excerpt from an interview with a US journalist.
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Riaz to face police questioning

BBC UK > News Headlines - 4 hours 47 min ago
Pakistan bowler Wahab Riaz will be questioned by Scotland Yard on 14 September in relation to allegations of corruption.
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Indian caste census due in 2011

BBC UK > News Headlines - 4 hours 57 min ago
India's first caste-based census since 1931 will take place next year, the cabinet announces.
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Defoe out for at least six weeks

BBC UK > News Headlines - 5 hours 10 min ago
Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe is ruled out for at least six weeks because of an ankle injury.
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Defence firm BAE cuts 1,000 jobs

BBC UK > News Headlines - 5 hours 29 min ago
BAE Systems announces it is to axe almost 1,000 jobs across the UK, with 740 to go from five sites in England.
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Taxi driver picks up pipe bomb

BBC UK > News Headlines - 5 hours 32 min ago
A Strabane taxi driver picks up a pipe bomb and takes it to waste ground.
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Door ajar on private universities

BBC UK > News Headlines - 5 hours 45 min ago
The Universities Minister suggests an increased role for private universities as he signals graduates will have to pay more for their degrees.
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Gillan agrees referendum question

BBC UK > News Headlines - 6 hours 7 min ago
Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan says next year's referendum on further Welsh powers will use a revised question by the Electoral Commission.
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University research focus 'wrong'

BBC UK > News Headlines - 6 hours 16 min ago
Science Minister David Willetts says the research-teaching balance in universities has 'gone wrong', after defending cuts to science research.
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Media barons "have no predators"

BBC UK > News Headlines - 6 hours 23 min ago
The Labour MP for West Bromwich, Tom Watson, used the Commons debate on phone hacking to accuse fellow members of cowardice in the face of Britain's tabloid newspapers.
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Southampton withdraw Adkins offer

BBC UK > News Headlines - 6 hours 24 min ago
Southampton withdraw their offer to Scunthorpe boss Nigel Adkins to become their new manager, according to Iron chairman Steve Wharton.
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Toshack departs as Wales manager

BBC UK > News Headlines - 6 hours 24 min ago
John Toshack departs as Wales manager after a six-year reign with immediate effect by "mutual consent".
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Income tax: Interest may be added

BBC UK > News Headlines - 6 hours 31 min ago
HM Revenue & Customs says it is impossible to tell how many taxpayers may have to pay interest as a result of tax errors.
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McGuinness 'forgot deathbed talk'

BBC UK > News Headlines - 6 hours 31 min ago
Martin McGuinness says he forgot a deathbed conversation he had with the priest suspected of being involved in the 1972 Claudy bombing.
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Meet the Strictly Stars

BBC UK > News Headlines - 6 hours 37 min ago
Meet the Strictly Come Dancing Stars of 2010.
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Chote set to head Budget office

BBC UK > News Headlines - 6 hours 40 min ago
Economist and former journalist Robert Chote is to become the new head of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
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Assembly post tackles trafficking

BBC UK > News Headlines - 6 hours 54 min ago
An anti-human trafficking coordinator is to be appointed in Wales for the first time to tackle the problem.
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Planes nearly collide over London

BBC UK > News Headlines - 7 hours 1 min ago
A business jet and a passenger plane carrying 232 people came close to a mid-air collision over London in 2009, a report reveals.
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Talk of The Town

BBC UK > News Headlines - 7 hours 10 min ago
Rebecca Hall is fast becoming one of Britain's leading actresses
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Yemeni soldier killed in ambush

BBC UK > News Headlines - 7 hours 15 min ago
Gunmen open fire on soldiers in southern Yemen, killing at least one and wounding others.
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