Five News has today announced that for the entire month of August it will be focussing on the plight of some of the UK’s many thousands of missing people and their families, with a special ‘Missing’ strand running through its programmes.
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AP - U.S. life expectancy has risen to a new high, now standing at nearly 78 years, the government reported Wednesday. The increase is due mainly to falling death rates in almost all the leading causes of death. The average life expectancy for babies born in 2007 is nearly three months greater than for children born in 2006.
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AP - A brazen burglar picked the wrong place to target: a police station. Police Chief Steve Scibelli said it was pretty embarrassing to have a thief hit his downtown station last week, stealing a radio, two stun guns and a Crown Victoria patrol car. The one saving grace is that police made a quick arrest.
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BERNE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Switzerland has agreed to hand over details of about 4,450 UBS AG bank accounts to U.S. authorities to settle a tax dispute that challenged Swiss banking secrecy and now threatens to spill over to other banks.
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AP - The stock market shook off early losses Wednesday and turned higher, led by a surge in energy stocks amid signs that demand for oil may be rising.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Tennis Canada is considering a plan to combine ATP and WTA events in Toronto and Montreal into one tournament featuring men and women playing at both venues in the same week, starting in 2011.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA managers cleared the space shuttle Discovery for launch on Tuesday after a prolonged debate about whether its fuel tank was safe enough for flight, officials said Wednesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. consumers will see on Thursday the first signs of the biggest overhaul of the credit card industry in at least two decades, as companies will be forced to provide customers with more time to pay their bills and be required to give more warning of contractual changes.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico is suffering from its driest year in 68 years, killing crops and cattle in the countryside and forcing the government to slow the flow of water to the crowded capital.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Triple Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt breezed into the world championship 200 meters final on Wednesday, needing only an opening 30-meter burst to establish his dominance in the semi-final.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Scottish government will announce on Thursday whether it will release a Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of an airliner over Lockerbie that killed 270 people, the regional administration said on Wednesday.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - World number one and holder Dinara Safina was knocked out of the Toronto Cup in the second round on Wednesday when she was shocked 3-6 6-2 6-4 by 39th ranked Frenchwoman Aravane Rezai.
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AP - Hurricane Bill howled over the open Atlantic as a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday, and it could be energized by warmer waters as it moves north.
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AFP - Nervous Afghans prepared to elect a president on Thursday, reeling from a surge in Taliban attacks as the government lashed out, threatening to expel foreign journalists who report violence on polling day.
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AP - Rep. Barney Frank lashed out at protester who held a poster depicting President Barack Obama with a Hitler-style mustache during a heated town hall meeting on federal health care reform.
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SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) - Some 30,000 marijuana plants were seized from a pot farm run for a Mexican drug cartel in a remote corner of a national forest charred by an 88,000-acre (35,600-hectare) wildfire, California officials said on Tuesday.
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CINCINNATI, Ohio (Reuters) - French seventh seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was upset 7-6 6-2 by Australian qualifier Chris Guccione in the second round of the Cincinnati Masters on Wednesday.
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Reuters - Two years after the start of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, policy-makers from around the world gather this week to think about how to prevent it from happening again.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two years after the start of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, policy-makers from around the world gather this week to think about how to prevent it from happening again.
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AP - The U.S. military said Wednesday six American troops were killed in Afghanistan, as militants killed six election workers amid growing fears on the eve of the presidential election that insurgents would mar the vote.
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