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Second Earth found - What do you think it is like there?

Astronomers have found the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, a world which could have water running on its surface. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6589157.st m What do you...
10:41 Thu 26th Apr 200714 answers, last by piccadilly 17:20 Tue 01st May 2007
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Post here anyone with a good word of the new sports section

Please post here anyone who likes the new sports section...
02:55 Thu 26th Apr 20076 answers, last by allotment10 19:27 Thu 26th Apr 2007
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Tory leaders, then and now.

Should Dave look to the past for inspiration? Cameleon Dave has been in overdrive this week as the local elections approach. He has variously been a decorator, tube passenger and roadsweeper, and it...
11:37 Wed 25th Apr 20074 answers, last by naomi24 23:39 Wed 25th Apr 2007
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Pentagon lies on Iraq 'heroes' exposed

Trufth is said to be the first casualty of war, but do you think that balantly duping your own people to keep up morale is acceptable? At an hearing in the US, former soldiers have been telling of the...
11:04 Wed 25th Apr 20074 answers, last by tonyted 22:36 Thu 26th Apr 2007
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US gun lobby blames Dunblane law for big rise in shooting

Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives and a possible 2008 Republican presidential candidate, told ABC News that if students and teachers had been armed at the Virginia Tech...
12:22 Tue 24th Apr 20074 answers, last by suffragette 18:35 Wed 25th Apr 2007
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Huge bonuses for civil servants in �500M farm fiasco

The farm payments fiasco, which will cost more than ?500 Million to put right has incurred a further ?1/2 Million in peformance payments for the civil servants administering it. "Civil servants...
11:00 Mon 23rd Apr 20072 answers, last by nantyboy 22:43 Thu 26th Apr 2007
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�60k atomic authority chief has 30 other jobs

"The nuclear industry was embroiled in a potential new crisis yesterday with the businesswoman running the body responsible for the clean-up of the Sellafield site facing ministerial questions over...
10:50 Mon 23rd Apr 20074 answers, last by G4GS 12:17 Wed 09th May 2007
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400, 000 dead!

400, 000 every year. The cause is not Terrorism, Wars in the Middle East, AIDS or giant Tsunami. The culprit is ... the car. Traffic injuries are the leading cause of death in people ages 10 to 24...
13:37 Fri 20th Apr 20079 answers, last by Arthur-G 20:44 Thu 09th Oct 2008
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Iran hostage forecasts new career as weather presenter

An AB question a few weeks ago asked.. Why were the Iranian prisoners freed on television wearing civilian clothes. I flippantly answered "Maybe so they can continue their Television Careers when they...
13:10 Fri 20th Apr 20074 answers, last by Lonnie 22:01 Fri 20th Apr 2007
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Israel to ask US for new cutting-edge jets

After the announcement of the $10billion arms deal for the US to sell weapons to Saudia Arabia, Israel is now asking to purchase the F-22 - a US-developed fifth generation stealth fighter jet. "US...
12:04 Fri 20th Apr 20074 answers, last by The G-Man 16:29 Wed 09th May 2007
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Footy on Arab Telly

I have heard that the ART (Arab) coverage of the Premiership will not be shown next season. The satellite station broadcasts sat 3pm kick-offs, as well as matches Sky are not showing. Does anyone know...
11:23 Fri 20th Apr 2007
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Motion to strip Mugabe of degree

"A campaign has been launched at Westminster to remove an honorary degree presented to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe by Edinburgh University." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_...
17:48 Thu 19th Apr 20076 answers, last by johnlambert 20:00 Sat 21st Apr 2007
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Can we have our money back?

Patients have not seen any improvement in the care they get under the new consultant contract, a watchdog says. The National Audit Office said despite pay rising by 27% to ?110,000, doctors were not...
14:10 Thu 19th Apr 20077 answers, last by Reverandfunk 11:32 Fri 20th Apr 2007
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Arms deal to secure Saudi Arabia.

The sale of $10 billion of arms to those friendly muslim folks in the middle east looks now set to be approved after Israeli objections had held up the deal....
14:02 Thu 19th Apr 200711 answers, last by infundibulum 22:41 Fri 20th Apr 2007
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Bootiful �1/2 M for Bernard Matthews.!

Bernard Matthews is to be compensated by over half a million quid after the bird flu outbreak on it's Suffolk factory farm. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6571157.stm The most likely explanation is...
13:19 Thu 19th Apr 20079 answers, last by wired 18:41 Sat 21st Apr 2007
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US troops on murder sprees in Afghanistan and Iraq

An investigation by the US military will shortly conclude that 40 Afghan civilians were murdered by US troops. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/a rticle/2007/04/15/AR2007041500466.html...
14:09 Wed 18th Apr 20079 answers, last by Loosehead 11:24 Fri 20th Apr 2007
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Captives: A deal was done.

Todays Daily Telegraph; "There may have been more to this agreement. An Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Baghdad two months ago - apparently by Iraqi security forces - was freed and returned to Teheran...
10:55 Thu 05th Apr 20074 answers, last by Bazile 02:23 Sat 07th Apr 2007
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UK 0 - 1 Iran (after extra time)

Anyone care to let off steam...
16:10 Wed 04th Apr 200716 answers, last by harper 14:55 Fri 06th Apr 2007
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Freddie Starr ate my Animal Welfare Act!

The Animal Welfare Act, which will become law in England soon (it already is in Wales), includes harsher fines of up to ?20,000 and jail terms of up to a year for cruelty. People will be legally...
11:23 Wed 04th Apr 20075 answers, last by infundibulum 06:39 Thu 05th Apr 2007

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