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Up to 150 tourists killed as plane breaks in two after skidding off runway at Madrid airport
All but 26 passengers have been killed after a plane carrying 175 people broke in half and burst into flames when it skidded off a runway during a take-off at Spain's busiest airport.
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'Lightning' Bolt becomes first man to do Olympic sprint double for 24 years with his SECOND world record run
Usain Bolt today became the first man in almost a quarter of a century to win the sprint double after storming to gold in the 200 metres.
The Jamaican is the first sprinter since Carl Lewis to win both events.
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BAA forced to sell Gatwick, Stansted and a Scottish airport as watchdog orders end of monopoly
BAA may have to sell three of its seven UK airports, the competition watchdog ruled today.
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Father rained punches on friend's baby boy 'because he was bitter that his daughter had Down's Syndrome'
A father attacked a baby while it slept in its cot - then claimed he did it because the boy's parents taunted him about his own daughter's ill health, a court has heard.
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Barack Obama's 'half-brother discovered in Kenya, living on $1 a month'
The youngest of Barack Obama’s half siblings told yesterday of his shame about living in a shack and existing on a dollar a month whilst his brother plans to become the most powerful man in the world.
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U.S. and Poland sign deal to construct missile defence base on Russia's doorstep
The United States and Poland signed a deal today to station elements of a missile defence shield on Polish soil - a move certain to aggravate Russia-Western tensions over Moscow's intervention in Georgia.
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Grinning paedophile Gary Glitter denied entry to Hong Kong on his whistle-stop tour of the Far East
Disgraced rock star Gary Glitter, his face beaming with delight, found freedom again after being allowed to flee Bangkok alone and in luxury on board a Thai Airlines flight bound for Hong Kong. But Paul Francis Gadd has been told he would be deported back to Bangkok on a morning flight.
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Tesco delivery driver sues customer after twisting his ankle on driveway
A Tesco delivery driver is suing one of the supermarket's customers after injuring an ankle while dropping off groceries at his home.
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HBOS boss has accounts frozen after fraudster steals his identity and withdraws £7,000
Falling victim to identity theft is a horrendous experience for anyone.
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'House husband' accused of killing Vodafone executive wife at their country home remanded
The husband of a top Vodafone executive found stabbed to death at their £1.3million country home was today remanded in custody over her murder.
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Burglar who raided holiday cottage gets window cleaner job at Prince Charles' country home
A burglar convicted of robbing a holiday home today boasted of his royal new job - cleaning windows at Prince Charles’ new country estate.
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Cashback if your council fails you: Homeowners to get payouts for potholes and missed bin collections
Homeowners will be able to claim a cash refund if their local council fails to deliver key services such as emptying rubbish bins under Government plans.
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Father and daughter, 8, killed in holiday jeep crash after '4x4 driver is blinded by German during water pistol fight'
A Briton has died along with his daughter in a freak accident in Turkey.
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Immigration soars eight-fold through Labour's 'open-door' policy
Immigration under Labour has soared eight-fold compared with the last decade of Tory rule, it emerged last night.
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Up to 6,000 more special constables to be put on the streets of Britain
A dramatic rise in the number of volunteer Special Constables is being planned after ministers dropped a commitment to recruit 24,000 'Blunkett Bobbies'.
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Home buyers 'will find it even harder to get a mortgage' in next few months
Home buyers will find it even more difficult to get a mortgage in the next few months because of the continuing credit crunch, experts warned today.
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Pictured: The moment British Olympic swimmers confronted German rival over her 'dirty tricks'
Britain's swimmers added two more medals to the 'Great Haul of China' today in the gruelling 10km open water event - but promptly claimed they were robbed of gold.
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Burly binmen refuse to take away rubbish because it's too heavy ... so this 7st housewife did it herself
A woman is fuming after binmen refused to take away bags of grass cuttings claiming they were 'too heavy' - even though the petite blonde can lift them herself.
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Property market is so apocalyptic the bosses have started quoting Bob Dylan
The despairing boss of one of Britain's leading developers has quoted the lyrics of Bob Dylan to encapsulate the 'apocalyptic' state of the commercial property market.
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Man arrested and locked up for five hours after taking photo of police van ignoring 'no entry' sign
A man who was wrongly arrested and kept in a cell for five hours after he photographed a police officer ignoring a 'no entry' sign has received a full apology.
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Stock market falls by £20bn as top economist warns credit crunch is only at 'halfway point'
Some £20billion was wiped off the value of Britain's biggest companies during another day of turmoil on the stock market yesterday.
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Sarkozy tells on-edge French troops: Afghanistan needs you to keep fighting
French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul today where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home.
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Beware, elderly people getting crosser: OAPs demand revamp of insulting crossing sign
It is one of the most recognisable traffic signs - a hunched couple with a walking stick warning motorists to watch out for elderly pedestrians crossing the road.
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Revealed: How Britain's 'massive' water consumption threatens world supplies
Britain has become the world's sixth largest importer of water - threatening world supplies, new figures have revealed.
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Up to 25,000 British illegal downloaders sued for £300 as games developers turn to courts
Computer game firms have declared war on illegal downloads demanding money from thousands of families who got releases on the internet for nothing.
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Manslaughter trial collapses after 'sleuth' juror carries out his own investigation into the case
A teenager walked free from court when his trial for manslaughter was halted after an over-zealous juror turned sleuth.
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Two million pupils fail to get a decent GCSE under Labour
The number of pupils who have left school without a single 'good' pass at GCSE under Labour will exceed two million within a year, according to figures obtained by the Tories.
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'Bigfoot' discovery was just a frozen gorilla suit
A frozen 'carcass' which two hunters said was a Bigfoot is nothing more than a full-body rubber gorilla suit, researchers have revealed.
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Brown's 'bribing of electorate will saddle UK with £60bn debt'
Gordon Brown was accused of 'gross fiscal irresponsibility' last night as it emerged Britain's budget deficit could double to a staggering £60billion.
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Tories will cut taxes to help the lowest paid, pledges Osborne
George Osborne made an audacious dash into Labour's traditional territory today by giving a clear hint the Tories would cut taxes for the poor.
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A broken society? Olympic success proves Cameron's talking 'piffle', claims Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson has described David Cameron's claim that Britain is a 'broken society' as 'piffle'.
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Visitors to the UK 'will be counted in and out' to toughen up border security, says Jacqui Smith
Almost all visitors to Britain will be counted in and out of the country and checked against security 'watch-lists' by 2014.
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Cost of public sector sicknote culture hits £5.2bn a year as each worker takes off 9.8 days
The ‘sicknote culture’ in the public sector is costing the taxpayer a record £5.2billion a year in lost working days.
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DAVID WILSON: Why I really do hope Trinny and Susannah's plunging ratings are the death knell for cruelty TV
As Trinny and Susannah's latest show faces the axe, Professor David Wilson, one of the men behind Big Brother, makes an impassioned plea to end what he calls 'cruelty TV'
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DAVID JONES: It was a glorious victory for Christine Ohuruogu, but doubts will always remain
Christine Ohuruogu's gold medal may have dispelled many doubts about her, but many will still question her suitability to carry the torch for Britain in four years.
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QUENTIN LETTS: How a short burst of British beach weather will soon toughen our whimpering children up
There is one remaining instrument of windswept endurance - I nearly said torture - with which to teach the coming generation a thing or two about life's pitfalls: the British beach holiday.
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LEO MCKINSTRY: Is it any coincidence that most of our Olympic champions were privately educated?
The battle of Waterloo, it used to be said, was 'won on the playing fields of Eton'.
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Wish you WEREN'T here: Incredible pictures of Spain's crowded beaches as Awful August drives Britons abroad
Awful August may have sent us rushing for the brollies at home, but you'd have needed a different sort of umbrella on this packed Spanish beach.
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Parents urged to talk more to their babies as part of a £4m police drive to cut youth crime
Parents are to be encouraged to talk more to their babies as part of a police drive to combat youth violence.
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Builder trashed home of ex-England cricketer he thought was sleeping with his wife
A jealous husband who believed his wife was having an affair with a professional cricket player has escaped jail for trashing his home.
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Flamboyant former Labour MP Leo Abse dies aged 91
Leo Abse, the former Labour MP who piloted a bill through Parliament that legalised homosexuality, has died at the age of 91.
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Non-smoker fights for life after thugs attack him for failing to give them a cigarette
A gas engineer is fighting for his life today after he was beaten and left for dead by a gang of thugs - over a cigarette.
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McCain and Obama pull 'attack' ads on September 11 to honour victims
US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain plan to pull politcal adverts attacking one another on September 11.
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Couple say sorry to neighbours in a newspaper advert after daughter holds party that leaves street 'like war zone'
She claims it was intended to be a quiet get-together. But after Holly Herdman posted notice of the gathering on her social networking site, things changed.
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Fresh fears over iPod nanos after 'defective batteries' overheat and catch fire
At least three fires have been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, the trade ministry of Japan has said.
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MMR fears 'increase chance of deadly measles outbreak'
Fears about the safety of the MMR jab could dramatically increase the chances of outbreaks of measles, researchers have warned.
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