2 DAY IN 2 MINUTES: home and abroad.Amnesty Taser alarm MINISTERS were urged to limit use of Taser guns after new figures emerged showing Taser-linked deaths. Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI,) human-rights organization founded in 1961 by Englishman Peter Benenson; it campaigns internationally against the detention of prisoners of conscience, for the fair trial of political prisoners, to abolish the death penalty and torture of said 334 people died in the US since 2001 after being shot by the weapons, which deliver a 50,000-volt shock. The Government said last month it would issue 10,000 weapons and routinely give them to non-firearms officers. Online sales leap ONLINE sales are up 16% on last year as consumers avoid the high street in favour of internet bargains. And November sales of shoes and accessories grew by 32% and 108% respectively from October, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Interactive Media in Retail Group and Capgemini. Alcohol spending rose 53%. Rabies case confirmed A CASE of human rabies was confirmed in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland: see Ireland, Northern. Northern Ireland Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupying the northeastern portion of the island of Ireland. Area: 5,461 sq mi (14,144 sq km). Population (2001): 1,685,267. last night. The patient was in a critical condition in hospital in Belfast. The person was taken ill after returning from an overseas area associated with the disease. Police injuries 'hyped' NUMBERS of police injured at a week-long summer protest against climate change were overblown o·ver·blown v. Past participle of overblow. adj. 1. a. Done to excess; overdone: overblown decorations. b. say Lib Dems. Ministers claimed 70 injured in Kent at the site of a proposed coalfired power station, but Freedom of Information Act findings were 12 reportable injuries. Global carbon wake BRITAIN'S shipping chiefs called for a global maritime emissions trading Emissions trading (or cap and trade) is an administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. scheme. It is vital the industry played a key role in the battle to reduce world carbon emissions, said the UKbased Chamber of Shipping. The move was welcomed by environmentalists WWF-UK. Thief with conscience A BURGLAR has been caught on CCTV CCTV abbr. closed-circuit television CCTV closed-circuit television returning the personal journal of a young woman killed in a car crash, stolen from her parents' Wiltshire home. Thieves broke into Clive and Patricia Wilson's home and took jewellery as well as mementoes of daughter Lisa who died in a car crash in Australia. All the items were returned. Sainsbury Labour gift LABOUR'S campaigning war chest was given a pounds 500,000 boost by supermarket billionaire Lord Sainsbury of Turville yesterday. His donation comes after he recently converted pounds 2m of loans into a gift and will further help the party prepare for the next General Election. The money is to be used entirely for campaigning. Abba exhibition tour AN interactive exhibition of Abba's stage costumes, instruments and memorabilia will go on a five-year world tour starting in 2009, organisers have announced. Tour spokesman Magnus Danielsson could not give a detailed schedule of the tour, but said it is likely to include stops in Britain, Australia and the US. Executive pay gap MALE executives earn 19% more than women bosses in parts of industry, proving that the gender pay gap is hitting all types of jobs. Research by executive job website Experteer of staff earning more than pounds 50,000 a year showed that the biggest gap is in consulting, where men can earn 35% more than female colleagues. |
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