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Monthly Archive for March, 2010

Reunited Libertines play pub gig

March 31, 2010BBC NewsComments Off

The Libertines play together for the first time since 2004 and pledge to stay together for their summer festival dates.

US offers to extend jet deadline

March 31, 2010BBC NewsComments Off

The Pentagon says it will extend the bidding deadline for a new fleet of US air refuelling tankers, if EADS makes a formal request.

Key candidate quits Sudan polls

March 31, 2010BBC NewsComments Off

Southern Sudan’s main candidate for national president pulls out of the race, casting doubt on the electoral process.

‘D.C. Five’ defense: Pakistan faked evidence

March 31, 2010BBC NewsComments Off

The trial of the “D.C. Five” opened in Sargodha, Pakistan, on Wednesday with the defense accusing Pakistani authorities of fabricating evidence against five Americans accused of plotting attacks on Pakistan.

U.S. jailer was target in Juarez killings, officials say

March 31, 2010BBC NewsComments Off

An American jailer was the target in the shooting deaths of three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexican officials said.

Drugs, murder fuel Mexican ‘narco cinema’

March 31, 2010BBC NewsComments Off

An American immerses himself in the seedy, fast-paced, and vastly prolific and amusing world of films inspired by — and often funded by — Mexico’s ultraviolent drug cartels, a genre known as narco cinema.

Obama eases ban on oil drilling

March 31, 2010BBC NewsComments Off

Barack Obama proposes ending a decades-old ban on new offshore oil drilling, in a bid to cut US dependence on imports.

Hibernian 2-4 Dundee United

March 31, 2010BBC NewsComments Off

A convincing win for Dundee United strengthens their grip on third spot in the league and moves them to within five points of second-place Celtic.

Hibernian 2-4 Dundee United

March 31, 2010BBC NewsComments Off

A convincing win for Dundee United strengthens their grip on third spot in the league and moves them to within five points of second-place Celtic.

New appeal over 1970 child murder

March 31, 2010BBC NewsComments Off

Detectives make a fresh appeal for information 40 years after the murder of a schoolboy on a Bristol golf course.