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Del Toro quits as director of The Hobbit
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The long-awaited film version of J.R.R Tolkien?s The Hobbit ran into more trouble today when director Guillermo Del Toro quit the project over production delays.
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31/05/2010 03:41 AM
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Anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune gives evidence
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Peter Bethune, the anti-whaling activist on trial in Tokyo, today took the witness stand to defend himself against charges of injuring a Japanese sailor with an acidic stink bomb.
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31/05/2010 03:19 AM
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Deadly clashes at sea as Israel intercepts Gaza-bound aid ships
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Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla of civilian aid ships bringing supplies to the besieged Gaza Strip overnight, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens.
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31/05/2010 02:37 AM
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Arrests made over Pakistan mosque attacks
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Police have arrested seven men over alleged links to the Taleban militants who attacked two mosques in eastern Pakistan on Friday, killing 93 people, including a British businessman.
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31/05/2010 01:40 AM
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British father and son die during practice flight Menorca air competition
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A British man and his son were killed when their light aircraft crashed as they practised for a race in Spain. Bruce Hook, 63, and his son Ian, 26, had just taken off when their plane crashed and exploded.
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30/05/2010 09:01 PM
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?Difference of opinion? on BP?s oil rig hours before explosion
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It was shortly before noon on April 20, only ten hours before a torrent of crude oil ripped through the Deepwater Horizon rig, that the quarrel broke out.
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30/05/2010 09:01 PM
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Graham Norton is unsung hero of another Eurovision disaster for Britain
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It was a dreadful night, even for a nation so well accustomed to crushing defeats on the international stage.
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30/05/2010 09:01 PM
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This scares everybody ? that we can?t make it stop, says BP chief
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With the failure of its latest attempt to stem the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, BP was running out of time, money and friends yesterday as it prepared another, even riskier, plan of attack.
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30/05/2010 09:01 PM
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Failings on Deepwater Horizon oil rig put thousands of jobs at risk
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President Obama?s six-month moratorium on new exploratory deepwater drilling ? ordered after revelations of flawed safety procedures on the Deepwater Horizon ? will remove thousands more jobs from the local economy, local officials fear.
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30/05/2010 09:01 PM
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British man died in attack on mosques in Pakistan
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A British man died during attacks by a suicide squad on two mosques in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
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30/05/2010 09:01 PM
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How Dudus stayed ahead of police
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The fugitive whose supporters have reduced the Jamaican capital to a war zone used improvised bombs, closed-circuit TV and cross-dressing mercenaries to defend his stronghold, police said yesterday.
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30/05/2010 09:01 PM
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Henry II?s mistress returned to righful resting place
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With her porcelain skin, blonde hair and dark blue eyes she was once hailed as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Yet for more than 200 years the bones of Diane de Poitiers were left in a common grave after her tomb was destroyed in the French Revolution.
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30/05/2010 09:01 PM
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