- A coroner raises ongoing safety fears as an inquest jury blames a points failure for the Potters Bar train crash. - Hundreds of UK soldiers launch an operation to clear Taliban insurgents from a key stronghold in southern Afghanistan. - The incoming BP chief executive has said it is time to scale back some parts of the oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico. - The new identity of Jon Venables must be kept secret because there is "compelling evidence" of a threat to his safety, a judge says. - A toddler drowned after falling into a garden pond during a visit to a house in Edinburgh, it has emerged. - Government plans to limit the number of skilled foreign workers allowed into the UK are criticised by the Lord Mayor of London. - Syria's president and the Saudi king call on Lebanon's rival factions to avoid turning to violence amid mounting political tensions in the country. - Fugitive Polly Peck tycoon Asil Nadir, who fled to northern Cyprus in 1993, confirms he will come back to the UK to stand trail on theft charges. - Merging all tax credits and benefits into a single payment is one option being considered by Iain Duncan Smith in a "radical" welfare shake-up. - A nine-year-old girl from Wales has died in a rafting accident while on holiday in Turkey. - A French mother who admitted killing eight of her newborn babies is relieved that her secret is finally out in the open, her lawyer says. - A 20-year-old Christian mobile phone shop manager in Florida stops a would-be armed robber by preaching to him. - An exhibition of paintings by a seven-year-old artist from Norfolk sells out, fetching about £150,000 in half an hour. - Andy Turner leads Great Britain's medal haul on the fourth day of the European Championships as he takes gold in the 110m hurdles. - Birthday boy James Anderson produces a superb bowling display to put England on top in the first Test against Pakistan at Trent Bridge. - Bristol City sign England goalkeeper David James following his release from Portsmouth. - Red Bull appear to be in control as McLaren struggle during second practice for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix. - Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp defends the club's pursuit of West Ham's Scott Parker insisting the Hammers are guilty of unsettling the midfielder. - Two sisters from north Manchester are detained after one stabbed her boyfriend and the other let him bleed to death. - A Romanian man and a woman are jailed for 30 months for forcing six children, the youngest aged two, to beg on London's streets. - A 28-year-old man is arrested in connection with the murder of Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll in Glasgow. - A 28-year-old man appears in court in connection with an alleged abduction and rape at T in the Park. - The widow of a man believed to have been killed by the IRA in 1981 said she felt sad but relieved that her husband's remains appeared to have been found. - A Catholic bishop calls for an independent inquiry into the deaths of 11 civilians killed by the Army in Ballymurphy in west Belfast in 1971. - Hundreds of mourners attend the funeral of a "brave, courageous and loyal" soldier killed in Afghanistan. - Two men, 21 and 23, will face charges after a raid on a Cardiff shop ended with the deaths of two others on quad bikes. - Three Kenyans are charged with the murders of 76 people killed when bombs exploded as they watched the World Cup on TV in Kampala, Uganda. - Four white South Africans are fined $2,700 (£1,700) each after making a video humiliating black university workers. - A consortium headed by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing agrees to buy the UK networks of French power group EDF for £5.8bn ($9.1bn). - Search teams in north-east China are still searching for thousands of barrels of toxic chemicals washed into a major river by flooding. - Forest fires kill at least 23 people in central Russia, while a forecast of heavy rain brings relief to Moscow. - President Nicolas Sarkozy says he would like to strip French nationality from anyone of foreign origin who threatened the life of a police officer. - The Mexican government says security forces have killed leading drug trafficker Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel. - A gay couple become the first to marry in Argentina under a new law allowing same-sex unions. - The UN refugee agency urges Saudi Arabia to stop deporting Somalis, saying 2,000 have recently been sent to Mogadishu. - The Arab League backs direct Palestinian peace talks with the Israelis, but leaves the timing to the Palestinians, officials say. - Floods caused by heavy monsoon rain kill at least 385 people in Pakistan and Afghanistan, washing away whole villages, roads and bridges. - US forces suffered the deadliest month of their nine-year Afghan campaign, with 66 service members killed in July. - US economic growth slowed between April and June, with GDP growing by an annualised rate of 2.4%, the US Commerce Department says. - A US soldier accused of leaking video of a deadly 2007 Iraq helicopter attack to the Wikileaks website is transferred to a Virginia base pending trial. - BA reveals a steep quarterly loss of £164m after being hit by cabin crew strikes and disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud. - Northwest Airlines will plead guilty and pay a $38m fine for fixing air-cargo prices, the US justice department says. - Airbus parent firm EADS says it is confident about future orders, despite reporting a fall in second-quarter earnings. - The intelligence on Iraq's weapons threat was "not very substantial", former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott says. - Three ex-Labour MPs and an ex-Tory peer lose appeals over a ruling that they are not protected by parliamentary privilege from prosecution over expenses fraud allegations. - The MoD is facing further pressure on its budget after the chancellor says it will have to pay for new nuclear submarines, and not the Treasury as before. - Calcium supplements taken by many older people could be increasing their risk of a heart attack, research shows. - The right of women to choose whether they have home births is being questioned by a leading medical journal. - A father persuades the NHS to give his sick daughter a "miracle" drug he found on the internet. - The Education Secretary insists there no is rush for schools in England to become academies, after criticism over the number of schools coming forward. - Plans to reform A-levels could put students off maths and lead to university department closures, an academic body warns. - More than 150 top schools in England have applied to become academies, government documents show. - Owners of mobile phones are being asked to test the security of their network to see if enough is being done to stop eavesdropping. - Newsbeat's had an exclusive look at new training being given to UK soldiers at the Royal School of Artillery in Wiltshire. - Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users. - The largest wildlife census of its kind conducted in Chernobyl reveals evidence of mammals declining in the exclusion zone. - Land in the north of Chile is "ready" for another major earthquake, say researchers, adding that authorities did not act on previous warnings. - A UN panel votes to remove the Galapagos Islands from a "red list" of endangered heritage sites, to protests from a leading conservation group. - Sports presenter Clare Balding makes an official complaint to the Press Complaints Commission over an article which mocked her sexuality. - Comedienne and chat show host Ellen DeGeneres is leaving American Idol after one season on the judging panel. - Ben Shephard bids farewell to GMTV after 10 years telling viewers: "I'm going to miss all of you, every single one of you." - More women in the developed world are choosing not to have children. So why do others think it's OK to question this decision? - With thousands expected to flock to a major cheese fair, why are Britons taking this once-humble foodstuff so seriously? - Hawley Crippen is one of the most infamous killers in British history. But was he really innocent of murdering his wife? - China is struggling with an arduous clean up after the country's worst oil spill, with grim conditions for those involved. - Thousands of children in Gaza appear to have broken their own world record for the number of kites flown at the same time, the UN says. - A Canadian woman has said she played dead in order to escape from a bear during an attack in Montana that left one man dead. - London Mayor Boris Johnson sells the benefits of the London bike hire scheme to the world media. - More than 400 people have been killed and nearly 400,000 displaced in floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in northern Pakistan. - Sought after paintings by seven-year-old prodigy Kieron Williamson have sold out within half an hour in an auction in north Norfolk. - The families of the victims of the Potters Bar train crash say they would like a public inquiry into the incident which killed seven people. - Hundreds of amateur musicians have set the sights and sounds of Yorkshire to music. - Are family holidays worth all the hassle? - What could drive a mother to kill a child in first few minutes of life? - Did they really play croquet at the Olympics? - Testing London's new hire bicycles - Who's the 'good lad'? Crisps boy, Massa or Dr Watson? - Northern Cyprus is a "haven" for fugitives no longer - What did they do with the drunken sailor? - Brazil's uphill struggle curtailing lucrative trade in underage sex
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