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The political week up to 28 October is reviewed in 60 seconds by Giles Dilnot who goes back over the headlines on the Daily Politics. Sir John Major is often credited with bringing in the National ...

On Sunday 14 December something did happen: Saddam Hussein was discovered in his hidey-hole in northern Iraq and monitoring ...

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The ex-King of Afghanistan has given his first television interview in ten years. Newsnight producer Henrietta Foster reveals how a chance discovery led her to the exiled monarch as he prepares to ...

1017: Stage seven is now officially under way; there's even been a few early breakaway attempts - very brave on a day like this. Lots of chat about the Lance Armstrong-Alberto Contador shake-up and ...

Police have begun a murder investigation following the death of a woman in County Antrim. Leanne McKee, 26, was found dead at her home on the New Mossley estate in Newtownabbey on Saturday. It is ...

Point of no-return' "In 1994, as a student in Dire Dawa, I was not allowed take the final examinations because I was an Ogadenian," said Ahmed. "I was arrested two years later on false charges of ...

Harman, 32, is quitting by "mutual, amicable decision" with producers, an EastEnders spokesman said. He will make his final appearance on the BBC soap at the end of the year, when Dean - a founding ...

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Heshu, who was described as popular and fun-loving, planned to run away from home after starting a relationship with an 18-year-old Lebanese teacher. In a letter to her parents, apparently showing she ...

A gunman who murdered a bouncer and a policeman in south London more than 12 years ago has been jailed for life. Gary Nelson, 36, of Woolwich, south-east London, was convicted of murdering William ...