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Each news item corresponds with an element. The items are displayed as a summary on the main pages, with their full contents placed in detail pages.
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US 'close to climate agreement'
The United States appears to be edging towards an agreement with other countries over further talks on how to combat climate change. US negotiators said they were within reach of a deal, having earlier walked out of talks in Montreal, Canada.
They appeared ready to accept that new talks should begin on cutting greenhouse gases beyond Kyoto targets - provided they were non-binding. Earlier, former President Bill Clinton said the US approach was "flat wrong". After Mr Clinton's remarks - wh...
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Saturday, 10 December 2005, 07:40 GMT
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Sony BMG repents over CD debacle
Sony BMG is rethinking its anti-piracy policy following weeks of criticism over the copy protection used on CDs.
The head of Sony BMG's global digital business, Thomas Hesse, told the BBC that the company was "re-evaluating" its current methods. It follows widespread condemnation of the way anti-piracy software on some Sony CDs installs itself on computers. The admission came as Sony faced more censure over the security failings of one of its copy protection programs.
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Friday, 9 December 2005, 16:59 GMT
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Song sites face legal crackdown
The music industry is to extend its copyright war by taking legal action against websites offering unlicensed song scores and lyrics. The Music Publishers' Association (MPA), which represents US sheet music companies, will launch its first campaign against such sites in 2006.
MPA president Lauren Keiser said he wanted site owners to be jailed. He said unlicensed guitar tabs and song scores were widely available on the internet but were "completely illegal". Mr Keiser said he did not just ...
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Friday, 9 December 2005, 17:55 GMT
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Why is English mistletoe facing crisis?
English mistletoe, said to be the best in the world, is facing a crisis. Why?
It spreads good cheer and without it many Christmas kisses would remain ungiven. Mistletoe is as festive as mince pies and the annual English crop is said to be the best in the world, praised for its elegant, parallel-sided leaves and lustrous berries. By comparison mistletoe grown in France - largely of the same Viscum Album variety - is said to have larger, limper leaves and fewer berries. The different Americ...
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Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 11:21 GMT
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CCTV staff 'spied on naked woman'
Two council workers used CCTV cameras to spy on a woman as she undressed for a bath, a court has heard.
But the men were themselves caught on a camera monitoring Sefton Council's CCTV control room, Liverpool Crown Court was told.
Kevin Judge, 42, of Crosby, Merseyside, and David Welsh, 40, of Anfield, Liverpool deny charges of voyeurism. Mr Judge and Mr Welsh were recorded playing back the video of the woman, the court heard. Mr Welsh denies a second charge of misconduct in public offic...
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Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 13:04 GMT
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'Wide variations' in death rates
Death rates in Scottish hospitals vary widely, according to an independent health watchdog.
Only Aberdeen Royal Infirmary had a better than average mortality rate, the Doctor Foster Hospital Guide found.
Researchers also claimed that while waiting times in England fell over the past year, there had been little or no improvement in Scotland.
The figures were compiled by the team, based at Imperial College, using data from hospitals across the UK. Analysts said they took into account ...
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Saturday, 10 December 2005, 00:10 GMT
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US isolated after climate talks walkout
The US administration was facing condemnation last night after it refused to sign up to a UN statement intended to reopen worldwide talks on how to tackle climate change.
The American move, at a high-level summit in Montreal, after two weeks of talks appeared to renege on a commitment made at the Gleneagles G8 summit, and promised embarrassment for Tony Blair, who has spent 18 months trying to woo George Bush back into the debate on global warming.
Undeterred, more than 150 other countrie...
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David Adam in Montreal
Saturday December 10, 2005
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Police chief to look into claims over flights
A top police officer is seeking a meeting with Liberty, the human rights group, over suspicions that British airports have been used by CIA planes taking detainees to places where they may be tortured.
Michael Todd, chief constable of Greater Manchester, is to pursue allegations that CIA planes, known to have landed in Britain, carried terrorist suspects "rendered" to secret interrogation centres elsewhere.
Mr Todd, who is the member of the Association of Chief Police Officers' terrorism ...
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Richard Norton-Taylor
Saturday December 10, 2005
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Papers reveal UK's nuclear aid to Israel
Fresh and apparently incriminating documents have come to light under the Freedom of Information Act on the way Britain helped Israel obtain its nuclear bomb 40 years ago, by selling it 20 tonnes of heavy water.
The Whitehall files not only confirm that Britain was a knowing party to the deal, but also contain subsequent intelligence assessments confirming that the sale of heavy water, which is used to produce plutonium, was crucial to Israel's nuclear weapons programme.
It was first reve...
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David Leigh
Saturday December 10, 2005
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Police may face charges over Menezes killing
· Inquiry's report likely to go to prosecutors
· Specialist lawyer will review evidence
The Crown Prosecution Service will appoint an expert lawyer from its specialist crime division to decide whether police officers should face charges over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, it was confirmed yesterday.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is due to finish by the middle of next month its report on the shooting by police of the innocent Brazilian who was apparently mistaken f...
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Rosie Cowan, crime correspondent
Saturday December 10, 2005
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