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Shops on alert as PSNI warn of bomb blitz
Police have urged retailers to review security amid concerns that dissidents
could mount a Christmas bombing campaign.
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Man charged after teen falls from Belfast balcony
A 26-year-old man has been charged with the weekend murder of a 19-year-old man who plunged to his death from a ninth storey apartment in Belfast city centre.
'Green light' for runway
Controversial plans to extend the runway at Belfast City Airport are about to
be given the green light, an SDLP MP has claimed.
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Collusion claim over Robert Hamill murder
Collusion of the worst kind was at work in the Robert Hamill case, the public inquiry into the Portadown Catholic's murder has been told.
Tiger link to porn star
Tiger Woods faced widespread ridicule yesterday amid more lurid claims about his private life.
Irish bishop is first to quit over child abuse scandal
An Irish bishop flew to Rome yesterday to hand in his resignation after days
of angry and intense pressure over his handling of cases of child sexual
abuse within the Catholic Church.
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Gaga meets Queen new
Lady Gaga toned down her normally raunchy dress sense for the Queen when she joined a host of stars at the Royal Variety Performance.
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Vancouver is the world's 'most live-able' city
Canada’s Vancouver has scooped first-place spot in the top 50 "most
live-able" cities, according to worldwide analysis by the Economist
Intelligence Unit.
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Aquilani’s patience with Benitez running thin
Liverpool's Alberto Aquilani considers himself fit to play and is frustrated
by Rafael Benitez's reluctance to give him his chance, his father said.
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Go Go Hamsters 'safe'
The manufacturer of one of the bestselling Christmas toys has insisted that
the product is safe.
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Brown wants 30% Euro emissions cut new
Gordon Brown has called for deeper cuts in European Union carbon emissions as negotiators started hammering out a new agreement on climate change in Copenhagen.
- Blair warned over Iraq war planning
- Married couple 'too young' to live in the UK
- Arsonist is convicted of murder
- NIO staff net £600k in bonuses
- Church replaces priest that fell in love with mother-of-two
- ‘Supertax’ planned on bonuses paid to bankers
- Farmers lose battle on subsidies
- Call for sweeping jail reforms after prison chief quits
- Pair bailed over attack on Sunday World editor Jim McDowell
- Sad farewell to a rising star of boxing Gary Craig
- Man’s road death is 107th in Northern Ireland this year
- Tears at Omagh blaze inquest as the sordid secrets of blaze horror dad are revealed
- Peter Kay sells 35,000 Belfast Odyssey tickets in just two hours
- Crown set to stage preliminary hearing into double murder case
US set to regulate greenhouse gases new
The US edged towards regulating greenhouse gas emissions with a government agency confirming that global warming threatened public health and welfare and was the direct result of human activity.
- Eight dead in China school stampede new
- Giant waves hit Hawaii's beaches new
- Venezuela prepares its defences new
- White house gatecrashers 'summoned' new
- Money laundering 'mastermind' held new
- 34 killed in Lahore market blasts
- Italy denies rift over Knox verdict
- Student protests spark violence on streets of Tehran
- Seize the chance to cut a crucial deal, world leaders told
- Iran slows internet to tackle student protests
- Riots mark anniversary of death
Evans injured
Jonny Evans will be putting his feet up over Christmas while Manchester United battle Chelsea for top spot in the Premier League.
- World Cup coming to Belfast
- Hamilton hails new deal for British Grand Prix
- Swifts and Derry agree cash deal
- Ancelotti is Frank about Chelsea stars Lampard and Cech
- Manchester United must put faith in skeleton team
- Giggs scoops Welsh award
- Mac wants Swift return to form from Glentoran
- Milito makes Barca return
- Arsenal's young stars on European trail
- Cliftonville boss Patterson demands players go on attack
- Tymoschuk’s Bayern pain
Sarah Palin: The media have been unfair to me, that's the price of democracy
To paraphrase John F Kennedy, this has to be the most extraordinary collection of people who have gathered to viciously attack me since the last corporate gathering at CBS.
- Sean O'Grady: UK to drop out of global top 10 of international economies
- Robert Fisk: Iranian troubadours show how music can corrupt the soul
- What will happen to Susan when the music is over?
- Katie should feel a heel over Suri’s shoes
- Robert Fisk: Anti-Semites in Hizbollah censor textbooks
- Johann Hari: I wish that the climate change deniers were right
- Robert Fisk: Strategy tried before – without success
- Arianna Huffington: Traditional media has to stop whining
- Vatican didn't know either? Pull the other one, there's church bells on it
PM pledge over 'culture of excess'
Moves to curb a "culture of excess" in public sector pay were unveiled by Gordon Brown as part of a bid to slash £12 billion from spending over the next four years.
- Tesco slashes upmarket range prices
- Shanks mulls bid interest
- Banks' tax leaves FTSE 100 lower
- EasyJet pull out of East Midlands
- Labour market 'on road to recovery'
- November trading 'disappointing'
- Stocks end mixed after brief gain
- Caravan firm eyes recovery signs
- Anger over windfall tax on bonuses
- Call to fine energy-inefficient firms
- Northern Ireland's economy is 'out of recession'
Peter Mandelson talks his way into gobbledegook prize
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson earned a black mark from language campaigners yesterday after talking himself into a corner in discussing MPs' expenses.
- £1bn funding at risk over justice powers delay: McGuinness
- Tories plan double-job ban
- Robinson pressured over policing
- Adams and his pals in red, white and blue
- First Minister Martin McGuinness demands DUP publish policing conditions
- British Government urged to scrap Trident
- Tax hikes for the better off expected from Darling
FA denies Viagra player report
The Football Association has denied England are considering taking Viagra to help cope with playing at altitude at the World Cup in South Africa next year.
- Alert over swine flu jab
- New pilot scheme to clean up hospitals
- No swine flu related deaths in two weeks
- Brtions drink 84 times their own weight
- Toxic fears for baby bottles
- Men ‘largely ignorant’ of processed meat risk
- Number of swine flu cases falls
- MLAs take health trust to task over bad hygiene
- ‘Bacterial defence systems’ could fight illnesses
"Sort It Out" message delivered to Stormont
They were just one mother and child — but they represented the frustration and hopes of many thousands more.
- Re-think Protestant schools' grant cuts Irish government urged
- Sort It Out campaign won’t be over until all parties sit down and sort it out
- Transfer campaign: Public opinion seems to be causing a shift within Sinn Fein
- Schools petition that Stormont can’t ignore
- Schools at centre of election bust-up
- We got it wrong on 11-Plus, says Sinn Fein MLA
- P6 parents should get behind the Belfast Telegraph's transfer campaign
- Education body delay to cost £21m, says Ruane
- Why one Ulster mum will be marching at Stormont
We deserve to have Bill of Rights without delay
On November 30, the NIO issued its long-awaited consultation on a Northern Ireland Bill of Rights.
- High Court's abortion decision is the right one new
- Prescription charges must be abolished new
- TUV guilty of rank hypocrisy new
- Help is on hand for all people with arthritis new
- Police deserve to be praised new
- Integration is obviously not a priority now
- Left stranded by the roadside
- People needing the gift of sight
- Tourism bosses living in cloud cuckoo land
- Standard of secondary schools has to improve
- Sinn Fein finish with a whimper
- Helen Mirren: We need more females behind lens
- The ten best childrens coats
- Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle has one group of young fans very close to her heart
- Confessions of a working mother: ‘I’m so glad to be home from hospital’
- Confessions of a working mother: Looking after my wild kids is just snow joke
- ‘Seeing James read the news should help others go public’
- Female perspective on Belfast’s sexual history
- My Lost Life
- Anti-depressant hailed as 'Viagra for women'
- Meet Catherine, the transport chief who takes photos of train seats
- Just what do these famous people all have in common?
Digital dilemma: New world disorder
Over the last 10 years, the internet has utterly transformed the world. But as we embrace this new-found connectedness, asks Johann Hari, are we losing our culture?
- Internet retailer Amazon denies plans to open a chain of shops in the high street
- Pop-ups 'slow you down more than you think'
- What gets Belfast Googling? As ever, we’re obsessed by the past
- Wikipedia UK 'not dying' despite editors exodus
- Tesco to fight rivals on price with iPhone launch before Christmas
- How the internet use is re-wiring our brains
- Fox boss: Ban illegal downloaders from internet
- Illegal downloaders face broadband limits
- Telly host Eamonn Holmes is top celeb on Twitter
- Wireless electricity: Leap forward for the way we live
- Local media ‘excluded from Digital Britain shot in the arm’
Hollywood honour for Downey Jr new
Robert Downey Jr is the latest star to be immortalised on the streets of Hollywood.
Vote for Brits' memorable moments new
The Michael Jackson performance which was interrupted by Jarvis Cocker's stage invasion is in the running for the title of greatest ever Brits performance.
48 hours in: Istanbul
Mosques, mansions and markets: Turkey’s biggest city has lots to intrigue the weekend visitor. Twenty years since he first prescribed the perfect 48 hours here, Simon Calder returns
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• Why were these thugs allowed to put the boot into my husband?
Twice now, within as many weeks, my husband has been targeted by loyalist paramilitary thugs.
• Vatican didn't know either? Pull the other one, there's church bells on it
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• How middle-class shoplifters keep up with the Joneses
I have not yet stolen anything from a shop but, if I am to continue the lifestyle to which I have become accustomed, it is only a matter of time.
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• James Lawton: Button’s odds on but real hero is Strauss
Here's a challenging proposition for the British sports public that a growing consensus believes, insultingly or legitimately, take your pick, is quite beyond its powers.
• Beckham's number’s up as England draw comfort
The Daily Mirror had his picture on both front and back pages: “Fab (sic) relief as Beckham helps England to a dream draw.”
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