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- Filed under: Nintendo DS, E3 A 2004 prototype of the Nintendo DS from E3 2004 (via Tengaport). The little dual-screen has come a long way, hasn't it? Check out the highlights for today:JoystiqueryMicrosoft's Red Ring warranty conference call transcribedJapanese hardware sales, Jun. |
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- SEU Dodo walks through the lush Brazilian woodland he knows well, picking out medicinal plants: lobera for diabetes, one known as "the king of medicines" for the menopause, another he claims can cure flu in a day. |
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- GORDON Brown will eschew sunny foreign shores this summer to holiday in England and Scotland, in a move that will distance himself from the globetrotting Tony Blair and underline his commitment to the Union. |
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- AT PRECISELY 7pm tonight, on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of the new millennium, a German farmer and his fiancée will take their marriage vows in the city registrar's office in Dundee - one of hundreds of couples who have... |
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- POLICE continued to search houses in Houston, Liverpool and Newcastle-under-Lyme on Sunday following the terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport. A controlled explosion was carried out on a car at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, in Paisley, where one of the... |
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- The fight against leukaemia is stepping up a gear as researchers prepare for the opening of a new centre in Glasgow, writes PETER RANSCOMBE |
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- IF ANYONE is an unlikely candidate for a festival of politics at the Scottish Parliament it is Clarissa Dickson Wright. |
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- TORRENTIAL rain turned a car park at T in the Park into a foot-deep pool of mud, causing massive delays for thousands of music fans travelling to the site. |
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- CHILDREN, stomachs empty and knees quivering, watched as Nazis massacred Jews in the killing fields of Ukraine. Teenagers were forced to bury the victims, shovelling dirt over neighbours and playmates. |
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- MILITARY personnel who are discharged for medical reasons are being tracked by the Ministry of Defence for the first time amid concerns over the long-term care of wounded veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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- THE United Nations observer appointed to oversee the Lockerbie trial has called on Alex Salmond, the First Minister, to agree to demands for an international inquiry into the handling of the case. |
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- HARRY Potter's creator, JK Rowling, burst into tears then downed a half bottle of champagne in one go after she penned the last words in the final part of the series, she revealed last night. |
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- THE start of the weekend is cause for celebration all over the world, but for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip even taking time off has become a battleground in the bitter struggle between the Hamas and Fatah factions. |
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- THINK about it: you have two parents, each of whom provide you with one set of genes, a complete set for everything about you. But you aren't just a 50:50 mixture of each of them. In most traits, you tend to resemble one or the other, so that, by and... |
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- A SCOTTISH firm carrying out government transport contracts worth millions of pounds has banned staff from cycling on company business, believing it is too dangerous. |
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- ARMED kidnappers yesterday threatened to kill the three-year-old daughter of a British expatriate oilman in Nigeria unless her father takes her place as a ransom hostage. |
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- FOR the island of Westray, the answer to its problem of generating income to make the community more self-sustaining was blowing in the wind. |
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- AN IRAQI doctor last night became the first person to be charged over the failed bombings in London and Glasgow. |
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- MILLIONS of music fans tuning in for today's Live Earth concerts will be encouraged to make seven green pledges to help save the planet. |
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- IT WAS the last refuge of speeding drivers, as the dreaded flash goes off, the fleeting possibility the safety camera had run out of film. |
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- CHARLES Kennedy, the former Liberal Democrat leader, has come under fire for smoking on a train, just five days after a smoking ban came into force in England. |
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- A SUMMIT of airline, airport and government officials has been called as the Prime Minister warned passengers face a summer of delays because of increased security. |
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- A YEAR and a half after receiving the world's first partial face transplant, Frenchwoman Isabelle Dinoire says the operation has allowed her to live like a normal person again, though she feels a part of her identity has disappeared. |
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- KENNY MacAskill, the Cabinet secretary for justice, embraced Scotland's muslim community as "the latest of Jock Tamson's bairns" yesterday in an attempt to heal any divisions caused by the terrorist attack in Glasgow. |
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- THE man accused of murdering Scottish backpacker Rudi Boa was seen wiping the blade of a knife and throwing the weapon away, a court in Australia has heard. |
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- SUPERMARKETS have overtaken department stores in the high street fashion stakes. |
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- A TEENAGER with Asperger's syndrome was locked up for an indeterminate period for luring an eight-year-old boy into a wood and raping him while photographing the attack. |
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- THE sons of the first men to scale Mount Everest have warned that climate change is dramatically affecting the mountain and putting at risk the lives of millions who rely on it for water. |
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- A CORRUPT detective who pocketed thousands of pounds in backhanders selling secrets to a private investigator was jailed for 15 months yesterday. |
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- THE telephone company behind the Richard and Judy quiz scandal was hit with a record fine yesterday. |
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- A MARRIED couple in England who had sex online as a nine-year-old girl in the United States was forced to watch them were jailed for ten years yesterday. |
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- A FAILED asylum-seeker who hoarded how-to manuals on car bombings was jailed for nine years yesterday. |
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- SUPPLIES of Coca-Cola are under threat after workers voted for strike action at one of the world's largest bottling and distribution centres. |
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- WHAT is believed to be Scotland's costliest cocktail has been mixed in Inverness - at £200 a glass. |
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- A SENIOR army officer yesterday denied lying in court about events that led to his troops killing two British comrades in Iraq. |
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- A NEWLY elected SNP MSP runs a huge Edinburgh property portfolio worth more than £2 million, it emerged yesterday. |
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- THE parents of missing Madeleine McCann spoke yesterday of their "outrage" after a fraudulent £1.35 million demand for information on her whereabouts. |
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- TWO smartly dressed gem thieves - one in a Panama hat - are being hunted by Scotland Yard's Flying Squad after a multi-million-pound armed heist. |
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- MEMORIALS to Scots who fled the Highlands during the notorious clearances may be erected in all countries where they settled, it emerged yesterday. |
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- SHOTS were fired at an aircraft carrying Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president, as it took off from a military base yesterday, in an apparent assassination attempt. |
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- DETECTIVES investigating a gangland-style murder have appealed for help in tracing a car they believe is linked to the killing. |
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- COLLEGE status must be as protected as university status, says a sector body, after students from around the world lost thousands of pounds in fees to a bogus institution in Glasgow. |
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- AROUND 600 jobs at the troubled supermarket chain Kwik Save were saved last night with an £18 million deal to sell the remaining stores to new owners. |
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- A BOOKMAKER yesterday stopped taking bets on whom Prince William will marry. |
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- SKIPPING and dancing, the long-lived residents of Pakistan's famous Hunza Valley show off the benefits of clean mountain air and a diet rich in fruit and other fresh produce. |
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- TWO peace activists who admitted breaking into an RAF base and smashing up US military vehicles in the run-up to the Iraq War were yesterday found guilty of causing criminal damage. |
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- A MAN appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday accused of murdering five women who were working as prostitutes. |
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- A TEENAGER with severe asthma has been cured after taking up the bagpipes. |
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- PROSECUTORS are confident they have enough evidence to decide on whether to press charges over the cash-for- honours allegations. |
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- THE centre of Glasgow will grind to a halt today for two major public events. |
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- A 12-YEAR-OLD girl and her ten-year-old sister have been arrested in the United States for allegedly abducting their neighbour's one-year-old son and demanding $200,000 (£100,000) for his return. |
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- FRENCH investigators searched former prime minister Dominique de Villepin's office yesterday in an investigation over bogus corruption allegations against president Nicolas Sarkozy. The raid followed a search at Mr de Villepin's Paris home after... |
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