May
2012
Articles from 19th May 2012
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Chelsea make Bayern pay the penalty
May 19 2012 | National News
Chelsea have won the Champions League, beating Bayern Munich 4-3 on penalties at the Allianz Arena. Read
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Miliband rating overtakes Cameron
May 19 2012 | National News
Ed Miliband's personal rating has overtaken David Cameron's for the first time, according to a new poll. Read
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Rider killed in NW200 race crash
May 19 2012 | National News
A rider has been killed at Northern Ireland's top motorcycle race, the North West 200. Read
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Spectacular flypast marks Jubilee
May 19 2012 | National News
The Queen has been treated to a spectacular flypast by 78 aircraft over Windsor Castle and music from six military massed bands to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee. Read
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Ainslie treasures torch relay run
May 19 2012 | National News
Being the first person to run in the London 2012 Olympic torch relay was almost as special as winning a gold medal, three-time Olympic champion Ben Ainslie has declared. Read
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G8 seeks action on eurozone turmoil
May 19 2012 | National News
World leaders have piled pressure on the eurozone nations to resolve their problems amid fears the debt crisis in the single currency bloc could damage the entire global economy. Read
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Man held after teenager shot dead
May 19 2012 | National News
A man is being questioned about the murder of a teenage girl and the serious wounding of her sister in a gun attack in a small village in Northern Ireland. Read
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Light 'shone at Olympic plane'
May 19 2012 | National News
Police are investigating a report that a red light was shone at the plane carrying the Olympic flame as it came in to land in Britain. Read
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Will Smith slaps reporter over kiss
May 19 2012 | National News
Hollywood star Will Smith has slapped a male television reporter who tried to kiss him before the Moscow premiere of Men in Black III. Read
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Policeman arrested in match inquiry
May 19 2012 | National News
A policeman has been arrested and suspended from the force in connection with an alleged sectarian disturbance at a football match. Read
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Teenage girl shot dead in village
May 19 2012 | National News
A teenage girl has been shot dead and her sister seriously injured in a gun attack in a small village in Northern Ireland. Read
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80% of Britons back the monarchy
May 19 2012 | National News
British support for the monarchy is at an all time high, according to a poll. Read
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Missing fishermen search called off
May 19 2012 | National News
A search for two missing fishermen has been called off as rescue teams found their stricken vessel and its liferaft on the sea bed. Read
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Trio remanded on terror charges
May 19 2012 | National News
Two brothers and a cousin of prominent dissident republican Colin Duffy have appeared in court in Northern Ireland charged with terrorism offences including conspiracy to murder. Read
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World set to act on oil prices - PM
May 19 2012 | National News
David Cameron has signalled that world leaders were ready to take action to tackle soaring oil prices. Read
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Teenage girl killed in Italy blast
May 19 2012 | National News
A bomb has exploded outside a high school in southern Italy named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor as students arrived for class, killing a teenage girl and wounding several other classmates, officials said. Read
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Men in court on terror charges
May 19 2012 | National News
Two brothers and a cousin of prominent dissident republican Colin Duffy have appeared in court in Northern Ireland charged with terrorism offences including conspiracy to murder. Read
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Man in court on terror charges
May 19 2012 | National News
A man has appeared in court charged with directing dissident republican terrorism. Read
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Woman, 73, sets new Everest record
May 19 2012 | National News
A 73-year-old Japanese woman has climbed Mount Everest, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain. Read
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Blind Chinese activist flying to US
May 19 2012 | National News
A blind Chinese activist whose escape from a rural village set off a diplomatic tussle between Beijing and Washington has said that he was at an airport waiting to leave for the United States. Read
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Pupil killed in Italy school blast
May 19 2012 | National News
A student has been killed and seven others have been wounded by an explosion of a device in a rubbish bin outside their vocational high school in southern Italy, an official said. Read
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Armed forces mark Diamond Jubilee
May 19 2012 | National News
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will watch as thousands of troops parade through Windsor in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee. Read
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Suu Kyi to address Parliament in UK
May 19 2012 | National News
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to make a historic address to both Houses of Parliament as she ventures out of her country for the first time in more than two decades. Read
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G8 leaders to discuss eurozone woes
May 19 2012 | National News
David Cameron is due to join other world leaders in talks set to be dominated by the deepening crisis over the eurozone. Read
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Sailor Ainslie starts torch relay
May 19 2012 | National News
Three-time Olympic sailing champion Ben Ainslie has kicked off the London 2012 Olympic torch relay from Land's End. Read
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Work to begin on removing Concordia
May 19 2012 | National News
The "monumental" operation to re-float and remove the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship will be the biggest and costliest ever of its kind, the company said today. Read
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Book reveals 'chillaxing' Cameron
May 19 2012 | National News
David Cameron has the ability to "switch off" from the pressures of high politics in a way that almost no other MP can, according to a new biography of the Prime Minister. Read
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Wealthy tenants face crackdown
May 19 2012 | National News
Ministers are looking to clamp down on wealthy families who benefit from tens of millions of pounds of subsidies for social housing. Read
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Bono brushes off billionaire claim
May 19 2012 | National News
U2 frontman Bono has laughed off claims he will become a billionaire on the back of the Facebook flotation that netted co-creator Mark Zuckerberg more than a billion US dollars. Read
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Seven face court on terror charges
May 19 2012 | National News
Seven people are due to appear in courts across Northern Ireland charged with serious dissident republican offences following an intelligence operation by the police and MI5. Read
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Special Award for Moffat at Baftas
May 19 2012 | National News
The man behind hit shows Doctor Who and Sherlock will be honoured at next week's TV Baftas. Read
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Cameron in tax warning to Hollande
May 19 2012 | National News
David Cameron has issued a blunt warning to French President Francois Hollande that Britain would not accept a Europe-wide financial transaction tax, insisting it was not "a sensible measure". Read
