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A chemistry teacher who had been poised to travel to Syria to join Isis has been jailed for six years. Jamshed Javeed had been preparing to leave his Manchester home in 2013. The teacher pleaded guilty to two counts of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.
‘New approach needed on A&E’
Too much emphasis has been put on the target of seeing A&E patients within four hours, a report has argued. The report from the Nuffield Trust think-tank suggests that, instead, new approaches to performance management should be given equal status to the four-hour target.
White powder sent to federal ministers
Police in Quebec are investigating two envelopes containing white powder that were sent to the district offices of at least two federal ministers. Employees who came into contact with the powder remained quarantined last night. Police say a third suspicious envelope had been found in the office of another minister.
Call for better rights for sufferers
New proposals to strengthen the rights of people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health conditions are to be put forward to the public, the Government will announce today. Proposed measures include putting people in charge of their care and helping them to live independently.
Aircraft skids off runway in New York
A passenger airliner skidded off the runway at a snowy New York City airport, injuring 24 people. Dramatic images showed the Delta MD-88, resting on an embankment after smashing through a fence at LaGuardia airport. Officials said the 127 passengers and five crew members safely left the plane.
28,000 flee the fighting in Tikrit
Fighting to retake the Iraqi city of Tikrit from Isis has caused around 28,000 people to flee their homes, the United Nations has said. Tikrit’s few remaining civilians are cutting up white clothes and fabric to make flags of surrender, fearing their Shia liberators more than Isis.
Cheating passenger must repay £17,000
A train passenger who used forged rail and parking tickets totalling more than £17,000 to travel round the UK has been told to pay back the cash or face jail. Mark Mason used computers at his home in Doncaster to create the forgeries, which he used to travel for more than two years.
US expat faces trial for Facebook post
An American expat faces trial for comments he posted on Facebook while in the United States. Ryan Pate wrote the post after arguing with his UAE employer about sick leave. On returning from Florida, he was arrested for breaking the country’s strict cyber-slander laws.
Proctor’s home is searched by police
Police officers investigating historic allegations of sex abuse and the murders of three boys have searched the home of the former Conservative MP Harvey Proctor. Mr Proctor resigned in 1987 ahead of a trial for gross indecency.
Spy centre suffers embarrassing leak
It is a national scandal already being called Germany’s Watergate. Berlin’s BND intelligence service – Germany’s equivalent of MI5 – has suffered what must be the most embarrassing leaks in its history after someone broke into its brand new headquarters and stole the taps, partially flooding the building.
Martian sea bigger than Arctic Ocean
A Martian sea held more water than the Arctic Ocean, scientists believe. It would have contained at least 20 million cubic kilometres of water during the planet’s wet Noachian period, which ended about 3.7 billion years ago. Since then, 87 per cent of the water has been lost to space, according to the journal Science.
Archaeologists find buried Celtic prince
Archaeologists in eastern France believe they may have discovered a Celtic prince buried in his chariot. Experts say the discovery of the royal, who died in the fifth century BC in Lavau, near Troyes, is the most remarkable of the period since they unearthed the “Lady of Vix” in northern Burgundy in 1953.
The ‘superpaint’ that never gets dirty
Scientists have unveiled a new “paint” that never gets dirty. The coating, which can be applied to anything from cloth and paper to glass and steel, repels dirt even after being rubbed with sandpaper or scratched with a knife. Details of the paint were published in Science.
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