#1 — BBC | France Concorde crash trial set to begin
US airline Continental and five individuals go on trial in France later over the crash of an Air France Concorde nearly 10 years ago.
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#2 — BBC | China warns Obama not to meet Dalai Lama
China has warned the US president that it will harm ties between the two countries if he meets the Dalai Lama.
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#3 — CNN | Gates to present specifics on abandoning ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy
Washington (CNN) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates will go before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday to unveil the Pentagon’s plan for rolling back the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding gay soldiers.
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#4 — CNN | Obama budget includes money to house Guantanamo detainees in U.S.
Washington (CNN) — President Obama is asking for more than $230 million in the 2011 budget to buy and prepare an idle Illinois prison to house terrorism suspects now detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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#5 — Fox | White House Confirms Course Change for NASA
WASHINGTON — The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is canceling NASA’s current space shuttle replacement- and lunar exploration-plan and is prepared to fight any congressional effort to save it, the nation’s top budget official said Jan. 31.
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#6 — NY Times | Huge Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power
WASHINGTON — In a federal budget filled with mind-boggling statistics, two numbers stand out as particularly stunning, for the way they may change American politics and American power.
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#7 — Times | Treasury loses as top earners dodge 50p tax
High earners will cost the public purse hundreds of millions of pounds through tax dodges as they avoid the new 50p rate of income tax, a minister indicated yesterday.
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#8 — Times | Carriers versus tanks: Royal Navy joins battle for resources
The commitment to spend £20 billion on a replacement for Britain’s Trident nuclear submarines risks damaging the Royal Navy as it faces possible cutbacks in its manpower and fleet, defence experts have told The Times.
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#9 — Times | Herbal remedies ‘can work against heart disease drugs’
Herbal remedies taken by millions of Britons can pose a serious risk to health by interfering with medicines commonly prescribed for heart disease, doctors say.
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#10 — Telegraph | Tony Blair ‘was warned about humanitarian crisis’
Tony Blair was warned by Clare Short just weeks before the Iraq war began that the US was unprepared for running the country after the invasion, the inquiry into the conflict has heard.
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