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Red Cross raises alarm over Qusayr
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PM: protesters are merely ‘extremists’
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Higher bills for BT customers
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Trial of WikiLeaks soldier opens
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Storm chasers killed by tornado
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Child victims of imprisonment
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When is a corpse not a corpse?
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Couple beat odds with set of twins No 3
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Soldiers in undies are disciplined
The Israeli military has disciplined a group of female soldiers who posed for photos in underwear and combat gear and posted the images on Facebook. The military said yesterday the photos were unbecoming of Israeli soldiers.
Cameron suffers an identity crisis
David Cameron almost missed his flight to Ibiza with his wife Samantha, wrongly assuming a bodyguard had his passport. A police officer was sent to fetch it.
Some things are easy to forget… but a car?
A woman who left her car in a Munich car park for nine years will only have to pay €7,000 (£6,000) rather than €70,000 – the rate if she had been charged by the day.
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