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Costly terror trial ends with acquittals

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:30:00 GMT

One of Northern Ireland's biggest and most expensive terrorist trials ended Wednesday with 12 of 13 defendants cleared of all charges against them, including murder, kidnapping and having guns.

Double murder probe as two elderly women are found dead in houses just a quarter of a mile apart after man, 43, hands himself in to police

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:01:17 GMT

Police first discovered the body of 78-year old widow Margaret Biddolph around 5.20pm yesterday at her home in Southport, Merseyside, pictured, and today found another woman dead in a nearby house.

Sunday Times journalist, French photographer 'killed in Syria'

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

The Sunday Times' Marie Colvin (pictured) and French journalist Remi Ochlik are reportedly killed amid shelling from Syrian government forces in the city of Homs.

More bodies found on Costa Concordia

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:00:00 GMT

Four more bodies were found aboard the shipwrecked Costa Concordia, Italian civil protection officials said Wednesday, more than a month after the cruise liner struck rocks off the coast of Italy.

Marie Colvin dead: Chilling warning days before she was killed in Homs

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:48:52 GMT

Syrian forces murdered American-born journalist Marie Colvin after pledging to kill 'any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil', it emerged today.

YouTube hit cancer mother Sara Duncan receives marriage proposal live on Daybreak

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:29:36 GMT

When Sara Duncan, from Oldham, appeared on ITV's breakfast show this morning she knew she would be talking to the presenters about her battle with breast cancer.

Profumo in frame at Monte dei Paschi

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:59:03 GMT

Alessandro Profumo, former chief executive of UniCredit and one of Italy’s most high-profile bankers, is frontrunner to take over as chairman of the bank

White House plans corporate tax cuts

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:19:52 GMT

The Obama administration will announce its long-awaited proposal for corporate tax reform, proposing to cut the present 35 per cent rate

White House to outline corporate tax plan

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:19:52 GMT

The Obama administration will announce its long-awaited proposal for corporate tax reform, proposing to cut the present 35 per cent rate

Unions attack Fox’s workplace rights comments

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:07:48 GMT

Liam Fox’s call to strengthen employers’ power to fire workers is an attack on working people that will not create a single job, say unions

'You have to learn other people have rights apart from you': Father freed to care for five children is finally jailed

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:34:53 GMT

Wayne Bishop, pictured with his family holding a 'world's best dad' mug, was jailed for eight months for assaulting a man in a Spar shop in Aspley, Nottinghamshire.

It's Only Fools and HEARSES! Del Boy fan transforms Reliant Robin into funeral car

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:21:28 GMT

Darren Abey, 45, from Fleetwood, Lancashire, is hoping to put a few ponys in his pocket after spending £8,000 building what is thought to be the UK’s first Only Fools and Horses themed funeral hearse.

Exeter University bans male students from dressing as girls on pub crawls

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:15:23 GMT

The Students' Guild at Exeter University has issued a warning not to mock people by 'blacking up' and 'cross dressing' during its diversity week.

Oil prices in sterling hit record high

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:13:24 GMT

Trend driven by fears about Iranian oil supplies and the fall in the pound against the dollar on expectations for further monetary easing

UniCredit wins dismissal in Madoff case

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:24:24 GMT

A US district judge threw out racketeering charges that alleged the bank participated in a scheme to attract investor money to Ponzi scheme

Big Fat Gypsy Weddings: Channel 4 show blamed for bullying and attacks on travellers

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:23:05 GMT

As the hit documentary series nears an end, the traveller community has complained that Big Fat Gypsy Weddings gives an inaccurate portrayal of their lives.

Nikitta Grender trial: Boyfriend's cousin Carl Whant guilty of rape and killing pregnant teenager

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:18:58 GMT

Nightclub bouncer Carl Whant, 27, was today found guilty of killing Nikitta Grender, 19, at her home in Newport, South Wales.

Veteran journalist killed in Homs attack

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:18:48 GMT

Award-winning war correspondent at the Sunday Times Marie Colvin is killed along with a French photographer in the shelling of Homs by regime troops

The 'mole-in-the-wall' gang strikes again! Thieves foiled digging THIRD tunnel in latest bid to snatch cash machine

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:14:34 GMT

In the latest in a 'hat-trick of blags', the gang dug down behind a railway station platform and burrowed underground towards an ATM on the wall of a corner shop in Manchester.

New jeans have built-in keyboard, mouse and speakers

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:47:30 GMT

The jeans, known as Beauty and the Geek, are the idea of design company Nieuwe Heren, run by Erik de Nijs and Tim Smit.

Double murder probe as bodies of two elderly women are found in separate houses by police investigating bungled burglary

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:38:46 GMT

Police first discovered the body of 78-year old widow Margaret Biddolph around 5.20pm yesterday at her home in Southport, Merseyside, pictured, and today found another woman dead in a nearby house.

Cameron hosts talks on football racism

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:30:00 GMT

British Prime Minister David Cameron will hold talks at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday to discuss racism in football following several high profile incidents in the English Premier League.

Occupy London loses eviction fight

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:30:00 GMT

Occupy London protesters who have been camped outside the landmark St. Paul's Cathedral for the past three months lost their court bid to avoid eviction Wednesday in a decision made by London's Court of Appeal.

European journalists 'killed in Syria'

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:30:00 GMT

The Sunday Times' Marie Colvin (pictured) and French journalist Remi Ochlik are reportedly killed amidst shelling from Syrian government forces in the city of Homs.

MPC strongly backed stimulus increase

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:23:08 GMT

Financial policymakers at the Bank of England were unanimous in backing more financial stimulus at their meeting in February

MPC minutes show strong backing for stimulus

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:23:08 GMT

Financial policymakers at the Bank of England were unanimous in backing more financial stimulus at their meeting in February

Marie Colvin dead: Journalist 'killed in Homs, Syria' hours after ITN News At Ten broadcast

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:23:05 GMT

Marie Colvin has been killed in heavy shelling in Syria, according to Reuters. She was one of two Western journalists who reportedly died in a shell attack in the besieged city of Homs.

Agony of girl, 13, 'groomed and raped by gang of men'

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:18:13 GMT

All the men, including Mohammed Sajid, deny allegations of rape and child trafficking in Rochdale and Oldham and exploiting the girls who were from broken homes or in care.

Andrew Lansley: Growling at his critics, the patient was far from frail

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:03:34 GMT

QUENTIN LETTS: For a man supposedly on the political drip-feed, his limbs in plastered traction, heart monitor blipping weakly, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley seemed remarkably chipper.

Greece bailout: IMF should stay out of this Greek tragedy

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:02:27 GMT

The role of the IMF is to help countries that lack the economic means to survive – not to prop up a Franco-German ideology of economic and political union.