13/08/2008,
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Frank Morgan lives 300m from a composting site. “You can end up being stuck in
your house like a prisoner,” he says. Morgan, 57, from Publow, near Bristol,
and his neighbours are complaining about what they say is the site’s
unbearable smell. It began operating in 2000 and there was no problem until
2002 when Bath & North East Somerset Council and the Environment Agency
allowed the site to expand massively. “Nobody knows what the health impact
is,” Morgan says.
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27/08/2008,
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AP - Oscar De La Hoya has nearly wrapped up a deal to finish his boxing career Dec. 6 against Filipino star Manny Pacquiao, two people with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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05/11/2007,
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Chang'e 1 begins task of analyzing composition of lunar surface from orbit.
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20/07/2008,
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Nepal's governing assembly began voting to elect the new republic's first president since it abolished the centuries-old monarchy in May.
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27/05/2008,
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PARIS (Reuters) - If anyone was pleased to see the back of Justine Henin, it was Jelena Jankovic.

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09/07/2008,
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday Iran's missile tests proved a need for direct U.S. talks with Tehran while Republican John McCain emphasized sanctions and an anti-missile shield.

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28/08/2008,
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Joe Biden took his turn in the spotlight Wednesday night, writes Vaughn Ververs, formally accepting his party"s vice presidential nomination and serving notice that he"s ready to take the fight to the Republican ticket this fall.
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09/07/2008,
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A controversial treatment known as chelation may get its own federal study.
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15/08/2008,
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Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, liked to claim – only half in jest –
that he had helped to create the CIA.
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14/08/2008,
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Simon Barnes is blogging
from Beijing every day. Follow his Games here
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10/06/2008,
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Experts say gas-saving tips you've been hearing for years may be fairy tales.
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25/07/2008,
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United Utilities (UU) told investors today that it was trading in line with
expectations and proposed an increase in its final dividend of nearly 4 per
cent.
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06/06/2008,
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Employers shed 49,000 jobs as the unemployment rate rose the most since 1986.
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28/08/2008,
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Reuters - Caterpillar Inc expects
weakness in rich-country economies to persist into 2009 but its
sales in China will remain strong, Jim Owens, chairman and
chief executive of the U.S. construction and mining equipment
firm, said on Thursday.
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16/05/2008,
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A letter in the Lancet medical journal sparks outrage from obesity experts.
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09/07/2008,
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ZURICH (Reuters) - When Omega first kept time at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, it had one technician and 30 stopwatches. For the 1936 Games, watchmaker Paul-Louis Guignard took one suitcase with 185 chronographs to Berlin.

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31/08/2008,
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The world’s newest insurgency claimed its latest victims yesterday and, to
judge by what local people said, they never knew what had hit them. The
casualties were security guards, little more than members of a neighbourhood
watch, manning a small checkpoint near the oasis city of Kashgar: a simple
barrier across the road, a desk with a log of the passing traffic, and a
tent where their bodies were found in the early morning.
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25/08/2008,
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The government should spend biofuel subsidies on safeguarding rainforests and peatland instead, a think tank says.
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