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My father was a child abuser, says Adams
SF leader Gerry Adams has revealed that his late father emotionally, physically and sexually abused family members.
Snow chaos across Ulster
Heavy snow led to cancelled flights and freezing roads, hampering the
Christmas travel plans for thousands across Northern Ireland
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- Leukaemia boy’s Eurodisney treat becomes a chaotic £1,000 nightmare
- I spent 14 hours trapped on a train inside Channel Tunnel
- Eurostar Channel Tunnel services to remain suspended
- Travel chaos as weather takes toll on the UK
- Manchester Airport runway is reopened after snow clearance
- White Christmas could prove costly for bookies
One woman killed after more roads carnage
Two separate weekend car crashes have left one woman fighting for her life in hospital and an 18-year-old woman dead.
Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs
Israel has admitted that forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead
Palestinians and others without permission of their families.
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Mum with broken back waits a week for CT scan
A mother of four who suffered a serious spinal injury in a road collision has had to wait seven days for a CT scan to diagnose the extent of her injuries.
Brit 'died of natural causes'
Actress Brittany Murphy died yesterday in LA of what appeared to be natural
causes.
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Bookies count cost of Christmas chart battle
Rage Against The Machine's Christmas success could have cost the betting
industry more than £1m.
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Memorable moments from the noughties 100-81
The dawn of the new Millennium brought renewed hope to Northern Ireland. Today we start to count down the 100 most significant moments in the decade. The list has been compiled by our reporters and outside experts and it explores the events which impacted on our lives.
- Town’s grief as murder victim is laid to rest
- Independent eye on new probe into killer UVF gang urged
- Cash machines to hold less money after digger raids
- Commission is needed to investigate ‘fat cats’
- RTE in legal row after festive listings mistake
- Vatican will be asked to remove four bishops if they don’t quit
- Narrow escape for family after arson attack on house
- Executive agrees cuts for the next Stormont budget
- Secret letters to be revealed on cost of the Royals
- Missing toddler alive and well
- Bargain hunters give boost to online shops
- Former BBC man to be sentenced over child porn library
- Pressure mounts on runaway brother to hand himself in
- Leukaemia boy’s Eurodisney treat becomes a chaotic £1,000 nightmare
Volcano could have ‘huge eruption’ in next few days
The Philippines' most active volcano could have a huge eruption within days, officials have warned after detecting a drastic surge in earthquakes in surrounding foothills.
- Avatar moons may become a reality
- Kool & the Gang visit Cuba and get the funk out
- Aussie sainthood for feisty Mary
- Senior Iranian cleric has died, say family
- Missing Dutch sailing girl, 14, found in Caribbean
- Controversial healthcare vote is under way in US
- Outrage over Lockerbie bomber's €2.2m in a Swiss bank
Tony switches codes new
Hull's former New Zealand international Motu Tony is to switch codes by joining National League Two rugby union side Hull RUFC to the end of the season.
- Rodwell out for four weeks new
- Mancini deal agreed before Hughes left - Cook new
- Kroenke edges closer to takeover threshold new
- Trio pen new Quins deals new
- New contract for Blues pair new
- Wigan game postponed
- Ancelotti backs Terry
- Black Cats confirm Turner red card appeal
- Zola buoyed by battling draw
- New Chelsea boss Mancini keen on Torres
- Ferguson rules out winter signings for Manchester United
Why I have fallen for that sexy TV domestic goddess, Nigella
Now and again someone comes along whose allure is so powerful, and yet so contrary in character to everything you’ve ever thought you wanted, that your grip on your whole identity is threatened.
- Barack Obama: The insurance lobby must not be allowed to kill healthcare reform
- NME’s female editor shows the boys up
- Peter’s body of evidence is grounds for optimism
- Protestors are streets ahead of governments on climate change
- A testing time, but don’t end up like me, a monster in a Micra
- What a funny way Iranian’s have of showing their love
- Members mind their f’s and b’s
- What’s love got to do with it? It’s not even an old-fashioned notion
- Why it’s time for Ulster Scots to cut oot waste?
Consultancy firm forges Saudi links
Belfast consultants Quigg Golden has formed a partnership in Saudi Arabia off the back of a successful Invest Northern Ireland trade mission to the country.
- Commission is needed to investigate ‘fat cats’
- Tourism’s £100m fillip as families stay home
- Pressures of climate change not met by local firms
- Borrowing hits an all time high of £20.3bn
- Ryanair ends talks with Boeing over purchase of 200 planes
- Recession claims 28,000 jobs in building sector
- Executive promises to help the North West
- Dale Farm chases larger slice of cheese market
- Renewable energy is the future, and Northern Ireland could be a leader
- Copenhagen talks will have a far-reaching effect on all of us
- £1000bn funding gap for lenders exposed
PM and Taoiseach step up pressure over policing
The DUP is facing mounting pressure to resolve a “limited number of outstanding issues” over the devolution of policing and justice powers.
- Executive agrees cuts for the next Stormont budget
- Conservatives to pay back £250,000 in expenses
- Eighty MPs to appeal repayment of expenses
- Dodds in bid to force Lisbon Treaty referendum
- McGuinness to meet UDA
- Talks that reveal the war has melted away
- British and Irish governments 'hopeful despite policing powers impasse'
'One genetic mutation for every 15 cigarettes'
One genetic mutation occurs on average for every 15 cigarettes that a typical lung-cancer patient smokes, according to a study that has identified for the first time all of the mutations acquired during the lifetime of a cancer patient.
- Cancer patients 'can't afford to stay warm'
- New treatment could aid sufferers of rare cancer
- Discovery of genes for lung disease may aid treatment
- 'Fresh-faced people live longer'
- Anti-HIV drug failed trial
- No fear: scientists find a way to beat phobias
- Beer and coffee "may slash prostate cancer risk"
- GPs’ revolt over hours may hit swine flu jabs
- FA denies Viagra player report
Ruane bids to end schools priority for Northern children
Pupils living along the border are being unfairly treated by a law that means schools in Northern Ireland must give priority to children living in Northern Ireland when allocating their places, according to Caitriona Ruane.
- Irish government to review cuts to Protestant schools
- Four of five main parties issue joint call for temporary P7 test
- UU Graduations December 15 2009
- Republic’s funding for autism centre resumes
- Warning over failure to invest in Northern Ireland's universities
- QUB Graduations List December 10 2009
- QUB Graduations List December 11 2009
Why they're all in the pink
Noleen Rooney from Belfast, who was diagnosed with breast cancer at 22, recruited her celeb friends to highlight how the disease can strike at any age. She tells Jane Hardy about starting a charity to help other women and, despite her illness, fostering several teenage children
Sir Reg will play part in appeasing republicans
Sir Reg Empey's rejection of the DUPs offer to work to ensure the election of Unionist MPs in Fermanagh/South Tyrone and South Belfast is to be expected (Write Back, December 14).
- McGuinness 'no right to attack Peter Robinson'
- Let's put myth of Santa to rest
- Why UK must not give in to Israel's demands
- Stamps, please
- Only one party to put people of Ulster first
- Our MLAs need to wake up to the real world
- Health cuts are hitting weakest in our society
- Church failings beg a question
- ATM thefts are so depressing
- Stamp collector makes appeal
- An Irish opera company is worth trying
Family: Brittany ill before death new
Brittany Murphy's family said the actress was ill with flu-like symptoms in the days before her death and prescription medications were taken from her home, the Los Angeles coroner's office said.
Pete Doherty may face charges new
Pete Doherty could be charged with offences linked to a hit-and-run which left a man in a critical condition, sources close to the investigation said.
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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