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The remains of a burnt PSNI police car in which four officers died after a car crash. It is understood they were on their way to help a colleague when the accident happened.

Four police officers killed in crash

Four police officers were killed today in a road accident in Northern Ireland. The PSNI officers were on duty at the time of the accident in Co Down.
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Three killed in road crashes

Terror boss Shoukri is found dead in Belfast

A leading loyalist paramilitary figure has been found dead in north Belfast, it emerged today.
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Police could get fingerprint scanners in three years

Handheld fingerprint scanners could allow police in Northern Ireland to carry out identity checks on the street by 2011, it was revealed today.
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Ex-loyalist convict gets top British Legion post

There was uproar last night after it emerged that a man convicted of offences arising from a UVF murder has been appointed chairman of a Co Londonderry branch of the Royal British Legion.
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Brown and Darling slash VAT in £18bn gamble

VAT will be reduced from 17.5 per cent as early as this week as Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling gamble £18bn on a Christmas tax-cutting plan to rescue Britain from recession.
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Hillary purges critics

Before Hillary Clinton has been formally offered the job as Secretary of State, a purge of Barack Obama's top foreign policy team has begun.
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India uncovers Hindu terror group

India is in something of a state of shock after learning from official sources that its first Hindu terror cell may have carried out a series of deadly bombings that were initially blamed on militant Muslims.
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Teenager commits suicide live on internet

The sister of a teenager who committed suicide live on the internet said "it boggles the mind" that viewers and the website operators had up to 12 hours to save him.
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Amy backs Eoghan

Eoghan Quigg’s father Chris has welcomed the support of troubled star Amy Winehouse for the young X Factor contestant.
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Public faces paying millions for Baby P mother's 'new identity'

MPs expressed concern today at suggestions the mother of Baby P could be granted a new identity - costing taxpayers millions of pounds.

Crues raine supreme

Crusaders sit top of the table after storming from two goals down to win at Coleraine but manager Stephen Baxter refuses to celebrate.

S�gol�ne Royal says she will take 'all necessary political and legal steps' to force a re-run of the ballot

French Socialists at war after leadership vote

Royal vows to challenge result as Delors' daughter claims victory by just 42 votes in poll of 130,000 members

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., reacts as she greets supporters at her Super Tuesday primary night rally in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008.

Clinton joins team

Hillary Clinton has finally agreed to become President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of State and spearhead efforts to restore America’s credibility in the world.

First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuiness jointly push the start button for Larsen Manufacturing?s new �9m chemical plant in Belfast Harbour Estate. The investment is creating 30 new jobs and will enable the company to boost its production capability

Jobs boost as £9m chemical plant opens in east Belfast

The newly restored Stormont Executive claimed its first success on the economic front yesterday with the opening of a new £9m chemical plant which is creating 30 new jobs in Belfast.

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Eamonn McCann: Why isn’t Obama quizzing Bush over bail-out billions?

Sooner or later, the American people will see through Obama’s lack of transparency.

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Claudia Castillo underwent an operation to replace her windpipe with a bioengineered replacement after tuberculosis had left her with a collapsed lung

You can't fly with that

The transplant of a lab-grown trachea, hailed as a major breakthrough in the science of stem-cell technology this week, almost never happened.

Cybersex: Teledildonics - are you ready for motion-capture love suits?

Last week, a woman divorced her husband after he had a 'virtual' affair in an online game. But it won't be long before we're all at it, if cybersex entrepreneur Kevin Alderman (right) gets his way. So are we ready to embrace a world of 'teledildonics', 'motion-capture' love suits, and hardcore software?

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John Sergeant: Strictly out of order ... or not?

Has John Sergeant’s shock decision to pull out of TV’s Strictly Come Dancing contest finished off this year’s series? As the unlikely star prepares to take one last turn around the Strictly dancefloor tomorrow night — just to say goodbye — two writers take part in their very own dance-off

Leonardo DiCaprio stars alongside Russell Crowe in Ridley Scott's Body of Lies

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Leona Lewis releasing Snow Patrol cover

Leona Lewis has described the Snow Patrol single Run as a song of “loss and hope”.

Weller is crowned the new king of dad-rock

Paul Weller has been around for ages it seems, a fixed point in the music scene's ever-changing moods, but in truth his success has relied on his ability to reinvent himself at crucial times.

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Simon Calder: Cuba as risky as Darfur? Please, don't make me laugh

Travel, like life in general, requires judicious risk management, ranging from "Am I a strong enough swimmer to cope with those currents?" and "Should I really have that extra drink?" to "What countries are too dangerous to contemplate?"

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The German language has a reputation for being long-winded but there are some rare examples of pithy German expressions that are shorter than their English equivalents. One of these is the so-called "Luxusproblem" – literally "luxury problem" – which corresponds to our notion of "a nice problem to have".

John Mulholland in his four-bedroom home on the Ormeau Road

Irritable home syndrome

Home is not so sweet for many people. An IKEA survey has identified Irritable Home Syndrome — dissatisfaction with your house, intensified by seeing the pads of celebs such as Linda Barker and Laurence Llewelyn Bowen. Jane Hardy meets local sufferers