British Court Denies Cancer Drug Plea

A court has rejected a British woman's plea for the country's health service to provide her with the breast cancer drug Herceptin.

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Blackburn Beats Manchester United 4-3

David Bentley scored three goals, helping Blackburn Rovers and American goalkeeper Brad Friedel defeat Manchester United 4-3 Wednesday in England's Premier League.

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China executed Akmal Shaikh, the Briton convicted of drug-smuggling, early today, provoking expressions of despair from his family and an immediate condemnation from Gordon Brown.

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O Fortuna, Carl Orff's composition from his 1937 oratorio Carmina Burana, has been named the UK's most widely heard classical track.

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Botanists from the world-renowned Kew Botanical Gardens in London have announced that they have discovered two new species of eucalypt trees in Australia.

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British researchers say they have developed a guaranteed method of pulling Christmas crackers, but it's not for the mathematically challenged.

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Children as young as two are to be targeted as part of a new campaign to recruit young people back to the church, the Guardian has learned.

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A British couple posing as their young daughter on Facebook have trapped a man who was grooming the girl for sex.

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An escaped prisoner, Craig Lynch, has set up a Facebook page and is using it to taunt police by posting messages about his whereabouts.

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Pantomimes — recastings of old children's stories with vaudeville, audience participation, puns, singing and cross-dressing — are an honorable, even essential, part of the British Christmas season.

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Evidence is emerging that the British army used waterboarding during interrogations on prisoners in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, according to a report overnight.

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A six-year-old girl abducted by her father two years ago and taken to Libya was yesterday reunited with her mother.

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With such a tiny car, it's an exercise in logistics for Greig Howe to get any Christmas tree home. So he thought he might as well get this 50ft one, and attach a trailer to his G-Wiz electric car to tow it.

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We are controlled by an illusion of democracy based on rigged political parties and rigged elections.

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A Norfolk aquarium has taken action to prevent flatulence from a Brussels sprout-eating turtle from triggering overflow alarms.

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Rock band Rage Against the Machine ended Simon Cowell's four year domination of the Christmas charts tonight after a hugely popular Facebook campaign helped the Los Angeles nu-metallers snatch the Christmas number one slot from X-factor's Joe McEdlerry.

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The range and diversity of his roles, and his big pay days, have left many wondering what he is up to. Is he a politician? A businessman? A campaigner for religious tolerance? Or simply on the make?

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Fighting for special needs support becomes even more difficult when you have to battle a local authority

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A hunt is under way for an 18-month-old girl taken from a police station.

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George Lucas's empire failed to strike back yesterday after he lost a legal battle with the British maker of Stormtrooper helmets for the film Star Wars.

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Thousands of internet retailers may be breaking laws that protect customers, claims a consumer advocacy group.

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A DRINK-driver has become the first in Scotland to have his car confiscated by the courts as part of a major crackdown on repeat offenders.

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It has been a vintage year for dodgy science in government.

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A gynaecologist gave a patient two "leg buckling" orgasms in a minute and a half during an examination, a court has heard.

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A woman whose husband was jailed today for murdering their 15-year-old daughter 10 years ago in an "honour killing" is living in fear of reprisals after she gave devastating evidence against him.

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The quality of pictures broadcast on the BBC High Definition (HD) channel has been criticised by viewers who complain of fuzzy and grainy images.

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The father of a 15-year-old schoolgirl who disappeared without trace 10 years ago has been jailed for a minimum of 22 years after being found guilty of murdering her in a so-called "honour killing".

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