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Two-year-old girl rescued from suicidal father
Ed Harris8 Jul 2009
A man dangles his daughter out of his eighth-floor window in Chengdu, in Sichuan, China.
She is rescued, right, and the man — said to have been on drugs — is arrested.
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A rioter who terrorised diners with an axe at McDonald's has been jailed for five years and three months - one of the toughest sentences for...
A teenage court witness was given a £600,000 payout by the Crown Prosecution Service and Metropolitan Police after he was put at risk, it...
MPs are to visit the Falklands amid heightened tension between Britain and Argentina
A university that saw two students and a member of staff killed cycling in London last year has accused Boris Johnson of failing to act...
David Cameron will today vow to take on the "scandal" of public drunkenness and alcohol abuse that costs the NHS £2.7 billion a year
The UK's unemployment rate increased to a 16-year high today after another rise in the jobless total. The figure jumped by 48,000 in the...
The Bank of England is to give a clearer insight into how deep it expects the current downturn in the economy to sink
An RAF airman who died after being shot while on patrol in Afghanistan was a "true hero and shining star", his family said
Google and Sony have joined forces in a bid to bring the internet to millions of televisions.
Hundreds of schoolchildren who had never been inside a theatre have been coached to write and perform their own poetry on stage
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Supersize superport: London Gateway
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
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Chris Powell: racist abuse between players was accepted in my day
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
