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Lake search for man after wife's body discovered
Police divers were today searching a lough for an elderly man who went missing after the body of his wife was discovered in their family home in Co Fermanagh.
Yobs clash during festive lights switch-on
Sectarian tensions have ruined the annual Christmas lights switch-on in
Belfast — for the second year in a row.
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It's alive: Collider fires up
After 10 years – and £6bn – the first particles finally smash into each other
in the Large Hadron Collider.
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Traders turn nasty in cross-border retail war
Tensions between Belfast and Dublin traders have intensified after posters
advertising Belfast were banned in parts of Dublin.
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Henry targeted by jokers
Pictures mocking Henry's handball have been flooding the internet.
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Debrecen 0 Liverpool 1
Liverpool crashed out of the Champions League after a bitterly disappointing
victory in the Hungarian capital.
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Fermanagh's flood misery
The torrential rain in Fermanagh has pushed the water level in Lough Erne to
another record level — threatening further flooding misery for residents.
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Telebest: Falling out with Alex Ferguson
The top ten of those brave, or foolish, enough to go head-to head with the
Manchester United manager.
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Catholic priest arrested
A Catholic priest has been arrested by detectives investigating the alleged sexual abuse of a boy in the 1970s, police have revealed.
Broadway underpass ‘will not be swamped again’
The Broadway underpass will not flood again even if it is hit by the same level of torrential rain as on August 16 last year, Transport Minister Conor Murphy has vowed.
- Abuse victims pressure Assembly to hold inquiry
- Shannon residents fear the worst
- Police name river tragedy woman
- Mother’s relief as on-the-run killer son hands himself in
- Woman sustained 34 fractures after death
- Republic’s public sector workers may go on strike again next week
- Judge lifts ban on identifying couple in embryo battle
- Father held after son (3) found stabbed to death
- Troops deserve more support, grieving widow tells mourners
- Young boffins win battle of the robots
- Saddam overthrow was debated 'two years before Iraq invasion'
- Iraq inquiry gets off to quiet start
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- Confidence in planning service plummets
Philippines: 46 killed in election bloodbath
Much of the increasingly lawless southern Philippines is today under a state of emergency following a brutal mass killing that has left at least 46 people dead in one of the country's worst bouts of political violence.
- Horror finds in shallow grave in Philippines
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- China executes pair over toxic milk powder scandal
- Obama’s Afghanistan vow
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- Husband branded a 'weak little b******' jailed for strangling wife
- China jails man who helped quake victims
- Indian PM: Pakistan must reject terror
- Baby deaths sparks cribs recall
- Hudson hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger now enjoys 'rock star sex'
Davis fears Rangers squad break-up
Steven Davis is hoping the Rangers squad is bolstered rather than trimmed in January despite European elimination piling on more financial woe for the cash-strapped Govan club.
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- Lay off Henry, says French coach Domenech
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- Rangers 0 Stuttgart 2
- Rangers crumbled under pressure, says Smith
- Ireland’s World bid still in the melting pot
- Barcelona 2 Inter Milan 0
- Fresh injury woes for Arsenal
Brian Cox: Large Hadron Collider is all about understanding the forces of nature
You can trace a direct line through the history of physics, from Newton’s gravity, Faraday and Maxwell’s electronmagnetism, Rutherford’s discovery of the atomic nucleus, Eddington’s understanding of the power of the Sun, and on to the LHC.
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Airport to open doors on new £6m expansion
George Best Belfast City Airport is on target to throw open the doors on phase one of its £6m expansion this weekend.
- House-building upsurge lifts construction sector
- Two-year high for mortgage approvals
- Geldof’s anger over digital snub to province
- Grosvenor scores top shirt licence
- Bailout by Bank of England revealed
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- UK’s top brands not reducing emissions
- Royal Mail strike was almost deadly blow for online retailers
- Meat company's £1.25m expansion to create 10 new posts
- Minister urges banks to increase lending to firms
Where do we draw the peace line now?
They have been called Belfast’s walls of shame, but how do the people separated by the barriers really view them? Jamie McDowell finds out
It could be healthy to shout at your boss
The old adage “Don't get mad, get even” may have to be rewritten as doctors have found that getting angry with your boss can be good for your heart.
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- Cutting salt intake ‘could save 4m lives’
- Pregnancy 'could slow development of multiple sclerosis'
- 'Covert copers' more likely to have heart attack
- Vigorous exercise 'can protect men from strokes'
- Drug trial was halted over risks
- Can we brush up the dental health of children under 5?
- Irish scientists ‘close to finding leukaemia cure’
- Half of children not exercising enough
Ruane admits delay in setting up education body
Failure to establish the new single education authority by the deadline of January 1 will leave a multi-million pound hole in the education budget, the education minister has warned.
- 8,500 people call for Transfer resolution
- Transfer test: ‘We can’t wait for all them to be over’
- Dialogue is vital ‘to bring an end to transfer chaos’
- Anti-bullying message taken to schools
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- Testing day for 7,000 children as new entrance exams begin
- Experts offer ten ways to resolve the transfer muddle
- Parties tight-lipped over transfer talks
- DUP desperate to keep selection: Sinn Fein
TUV supporters like turkeys voting for Christmas
Who would be Jim Allister? While the DUP was having a well-attended, positive party conference, poor Mr Allister is reduced to sending off nasty letters attacking fellow unionists (Write Back, November 23).
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- Transport for new college will be sorted
- Death penalty is not answer to deterring crime
- Would Jesus side with the Free Presbyterians?
- PCSO issue will not be forgotten
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‘Seeing James read the news should help others go public’
James Partridge challenged public attitudes to disfigurement by reading the news on Five last week.Kerry McKittrick talks to three local women on how they coped after being left scarred
- Confessions of a working mother: Looking after my wild kids is just snow joke
- 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?
- Pushchair firm Maclaren backs recall plan
- Home birth warning after baby death
- Outstanding winners out in force at awards dinner
- Women of the Year Awards
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How the internet use is re-wiring our brains
Spending hours on the net isn't only changing the way we work, shop and socialise. A leading neurologist says it is subtly re-wiring the way we think and behave – often for the better.
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- Local media ‘excluded from Digital Britain shot in the arm’
- McCausland cancels meeting over Government’s digital stance
- Two arrested over net bank details virus
- How ergonomics can shape our daily lives
- Comparison websites ‘aren’t trusted’
- Switzerland tackles Google over Street View privacy
- Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 breaks sales record
Top Gear host Richard Hammond faces battle for insurance
Injury-prone Top Gear host Richard Hammond said yesterday he is struggling to get insurance for a skiing holiday.
- David Tennant to use pianist's skull for Shakespeare's Hamlet
- US viewers furious over Idol star's S&M show
- X Factor reject twins Jedward were boosted by Robbie's words of encouragement
- Katie: I've split with Alex
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Beyonce: the epitome of beauty in body, mind and soul
A healthy body, a happy relationship and a hard-working attitude — Beyoncé Knowles is a celebrity who deserves our admiration.
- Soul star Sade to release new album
- US plans TV special on singing sensation Susan Boyle
- Susan Boyle and X Factor reject twins set to top Christmas charts
- Swift and Jackson sweep music awards
- U2 to headline Glastonbury's 40th anniversary bash
- Bunch of Yes men
- Boyzone's Keith Duffy: Pain over Stephen Gately death is ‘easing only slowly’
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Take a punt on the picturesque university city this winter and you’ll be rewarded with fine architecture and food, a classical music festival and an outdoor ice rink.
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• Brown can't even stick to his own nonsense on Afghanistan
Bit by bit, as happened with Iraq, the reasons for staying in Afghanistan slide into gibberish. So Gordon Brown's reasons for the war seem to change every week.
• Why defining identities is more than Armalites and Ulster Scots
If you think you're a unionist or a nationalist can you define what you mean?
• Cannabis: it’s time to stop the lies and start a rational debate
It doesn't require a Leap of faith to support the growing calls for a radical rethink of policy on drugs and in particular on the decriminalisation of cannabis.
• We're stuck with the Assembly . . . and it's no laughing matter
A few evenings ago the Minister of Health at Stormont, Michael McGimpsey, was to be seen on the television news offering his audience what he termed a 'joke'.
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One feature of rugby union has been its willingness and ability to learn and pick up tips from other sports.
• What a way for Fergie to celebrate
After Kauto Star’s narrowest of wins in the Betfair Chase at Haydock at the weekend, trainer Paul Nicholls now has his eye on Saturday’s Newbury Hennessy Gold Cup.
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