Tony Blair’s premiership was on the verge of complete paralysis on Thursday night after it emerged that he was interviewed a second time in secret by police investigating the cash for honours scandal.

Detectives questioned the Prime Minister for nearly an hour in Downing Street over claims that key aides tried to cover-up the affair.

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Limbaugh, whose daily radio show is heard by more than 20 million people on more than 600 radio stations in the United States and around the world, was nominated for the prestigious award for his "nearly two decades of tireless efforts to promote liberty, equality and opportunity for all humankind, regardless of race, creed, economic stratum or national origin. These are the only real cornerstones of just and lasting peace throughout the world," said Landmark President Mark R. Levin.

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British book retailer Waterstone's is hoping to set up a helpline for distressed fans of the popular Harry Potter series because two characters will be killed off in the final instalment, The Daily Telegraph reported.

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Mayor Gavin Newsom today admitted having an affair with the wife of his re-election campaign manager and apologized at a City Hall press conference held in his office.

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Amanda Hamm, 30, was convicted in December in the deaths of Christopher Hamm, 6, Austin Brown, 3, and Kyleigh Hamm, 1, who were trapped inside a car that sank in Clinton Lake in 2003. Hamm was cleared of first-degree murder charges that would have sent her to prison for life.

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CHINA'S military is harvesting organs from unwilling live prison inmates, mostly Falungong practitioners, for transplants on a large scale - including to foreign recipients- according to a study.

The report's authors  - Canada's former secretary of state for the Asia Pacific region David Kilgour and human rights lawyer David Matas - implicated dozens of hospitals and jails throughout China in July, after a two-month investigation.

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Environmental engineers at the University of Florida report in a new study that zapping damp sponges and dishcloths for two minutes on full power in a microwave kills more than 99% of harmful bacteria. We asked the experts at the Good Housekeeping Institute to come up with 10 further novel uses for your oven.

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Newton’s car went airborne for about 200 feet before landing in the Mississippi River, Kelly said.  Newton hit the levee after speeding along Brightside Drive heading toward River Road. He drove into oncoming traffic, through a stop sign at River Road, up the levee and into the water.

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Fifty-seven years later, the Sumner Elementary School in Topeka is back in the news. That city's board of education is still wrongly preventing the right people from getting into that building. Two educators wanted to use Sumner for a charter school, a public school entitled to operate outside the confinements of dictated curricula and free from many work rules written by teachers unions. Their school would have been a back-to-basics academy for grades K through five, designed to attack Topeka's 23-point gap between the reading proficiency of black and Hispanic third-graders and that of whites.

When the school board rejected the application of the two educators -- African-American women -- but praised their dedication to children, one of the women was not mollified: "A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet.''

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Howie Carr tells it like it is:

Peter “Borat” Berdovsky is officially a victim now. The poor newcomer to our shores, this wannabe political “refugee,” is being persecuted by The Man, made a fall guy by Big Animation for the moronic Ted Turner terror stunt. He’s a refugee all right - from a Beavis and Butthead episode. This nerd is the full slacker package - Mass. College of Art, a goatee, stringy hair, a self-described “artist” with an avant-garde rock band. The only fact that’s out of place is that he actually has his own place, but then, his mother is still in Europe (a long commute) and we’ll add a few points back to his overall slacker score for the fact that he lives in a “loft.”

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Prosecutors said on Thursday they would not seek the death penalty for four New Orleans police officers charged with shooting dead two people on a bridge shortly after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city.

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Attacks on Britain's Jews have risen to the highest level since records began.

A study published today shows the number of reported anti-Semitic incidents has almost tripled in 10 years, with more than half the attacks last year taking place in London.

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Recently branded "a favorite scientist of the global warming denial machine" by one national environmental group, Legates said he was following scientific evidence in arguing the institute's position in the court case. He has taken similar positions dating back to at least 1998, while a professor at LouisianaStateUniversity.

"The science brought in by the one side had given a more extremist view of climate change," Legates said. "What we're trying to say is, the science isn't necessarily that well settled, and in many cases it isn't that extreme. I'm not saying it isn't a problem."

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"My fiancé, who was an eastern European model, used my credentials with immigration to procure a visa and didn't show up for our wedding," Penoso said. "She never showed up. She never called, and it was only later that I found she showed up in Beverly Hills via LAX."

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Ice cream vendor beheaded in Thai Muslim south..."They chopped his head off and walked away with it, leaving his body sitting on the ice cream bike's seat," a Pattani policeman told Reuters by telephone.

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Auditors confirmed that at least seven hospital employees had been using fake Social Security numbers or numbers that belonged to dead people. The Office of the State Auditor referred an additional 13 workers whose documents it could not verify to the hospital for further review.

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A woman is suing the Kansas City Police Department claiming that the two officers who pulled her over caused her to have a miscarriage and she says dash-cam video of the traffic-stop proves her case. The woman is heard asking for medical help at least a dozen times. The officers pulled her over for what they said were fake temporary tags in her windshield.

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A nanotechnologist in Texas has come up with a way of producing a super-fabric with 100 times the strength of human muscle. The Pentagon now wants him to develop a super-suit for its soldiers.

The Pentagon is hoping that a new type of suit will give its soldiers super-human powers. It would be made from a newly developed super-strong but super-lightweight fabric that could stop bullets and increase the soldiers muscle power up to a hundredfold.

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The swimming bag hit the car floor with a thump and my son hit the car seat with an even bigger thump, grumbling: "What's the point?"

His primary school had just lost a swimming competition, largely because their head teacher had picked a team on the basis of enthusiasm rather than ability.

To paraphrase that old cliche, it wasn't the winning that mattered, it was the taking part.

Well, I'm sorry, but in the real world life is full of winners and losers. And right now, the losers are a generation of boys who have been betrayed by an education system that no longer recognises crucial differences between the sexes.

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After ten years of futile searching, researchers at the Search for Recording Industry Intelligence (SRII) have given up hope of finding any semblance of intelligence in the RIAA.  Researchers initially hoped to find fully formed and coherent ideas emitted by the RIAA, but as time passed the early optimism slowly faded. 

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With An Inconvenient Truth, the companion book to former Vice President Al Gore’s global-warming movie, currently number nine in Amazon sales rank, this is a good time to point out that the book, which is a largely pictorial representation of the movie’s graphical presentation, exaggerates the evidence surrounding global warming. Ironically, the former Vice President leaves out many truths that are inconvenient for his argument. Here are just 25 of them.

With the arrival of Vista, Apple has escalated its TV Mac attacks on Windows: the ones with two comedians dressed up to represent a Mac and a PC.

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A criminal defense attorney has been arraigned on a disorderly conduct charge stemming from a kissing incident in the Waterbury Superior Court building.

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A baby born weighing 6.6kg (14.5lbs) has caused a sensation in Mexico with crowds gathering at the windows of a maternity unit to catch a glimpse.

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Ed Andrews, an Air Force Reservist, took up a collection last summer among nearly two dozen neighbors on Acer Way and Ortiz Court that raised over $400 to buy the flags and mounting brackets.

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For the record, I would like to point out that here, as in every other civil liberties argument on the show so far, Karen has not offered one alternative action above and beyond what we assume would be normal peacetime procedures for law enforcement for either trying to track or catch the terrorists who are operating in our midst. All we get from her are platitudes and high falutin calls to honor the Constitution.

This raises some interesting questions that the show – and indeed the country itself – has failed to discuss. Are there any measures the civil liberties absolutists would endorse beyond what law enforcement is currently vouchsafed by law? If no “Patriot Act,” what then? Business as usual and a “so sorry” to the families of victims who might still be alive if measures were taken to protect the citizenry?

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Investigators say they believe that attackers who used American-style uniforms and weapons to infiltrate a secure compound and kill five American soldiers in Karbala on Jan. 20 may have been trained and financed by Iranian agents, according to American and Iraqi officials knowledgeable about the inquiry.

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A foreign-born Islamic preacher has been accused of marrying a London woman with the mental age of seven in order to live in the UK.

The bride's family, which is planning to sue the imam for abandoning his wife, has criticised the Home Office for its failure to deport the cleric.

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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's re-election campaign manager resigned Wednesday after confronting the mayor about an affair Newsom had with his wife while she worked in the mayor's office, City Hall sources said.

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The legislation, which Mr Chávez has described as the "mother law", is intended to usher in what the Venezuelan leader has called an era of "maximum revolution", in which he is expected to impose greater state control over the country's vast oil and gas resources and place punitive taxes on the rich.

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Twice this past week, on January 23 and 25, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held hearings on intelligence reform. Topics included the remaining 9/11 Commission recommendations and efforts both to facilitate information-sharing across the U.S. government's 16 intelligence agencies and to increase the number of operatives and linguists.

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