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The G20 have come up with a package of plans that add up to well over a trillion dollars to tackle the recession. One key component is an agreement to treble to 750 billion dollars the resources available to the International Monetary Fund for lending to countries in trouble. They also want a tenfold increase in what are called special drawing rights which are rather like an IMF currency and which strengthen the foreign exchange reserves of its member countries. The G20 also plans closer regulation of financial firms with curbs on executive pay and new over? sight of large hedge funds. The British Prime Minister,Gordon Brown,described the summit as marking a new consensus on tackling global problems.
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A senior British army officer has told the Iraq Inquiry in Britain that he urged the govern? ment to delay the invasion of Iraq two days before it went ahead. Major General Tim Cross said that in his view post-conflict preparations were not in place. He added that he did not be? lieve the US was solely to blame and that Britain had not taken seriously enough the challenges that would arise after the invasion.
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The world's most famous golfer,Tiger Woods,is to be fined and receive a citation for careless driving following the mysterious car crash in which he was injured last week. But he will not face any criminal charges over the incident in which Mr. Woods drove his car into a fire hydrant and a tree close to his home. The police statement shed no further light on the e- vents leading up to the crash, which sparked a frenzy of media speculation throughout the Unit? ed States and beyond. Tiger Woods admitted on Sunday that the crash was his fault and said it had been embarrassing for his family.
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About 150 prominent Arabic writers and academics were signing an online petition ap? pealing for an end to a growing conflict between Algeria and Egypt over two football matches. The appeal calls for reason and conscience to rise above what it calls pettiness and nonsense. The signatories blamed the media for fanning the flames of nationalism and criticized the Alge? rian and the Egyptian elite for failing to show leadership over the issue. It says those behind the violence in the World Cup qualifier last week which Algeria won represented only themselves and not their teams. In the ensuing row which has seen further violence,Cairo has recalled its ambassador to Algeria's,and the Egyptian president's son has accused Algerian football sup? porters of being terrorists.
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University organisations have voiced fears about the scale of spending cuts being imposed in England by the government.
They would cut budgets by more than 130m on top of nearly 200m ordered earlier this year. Longer term cuts of 600m were unveiled last month.
And next year will see the loss of 10,000 additional student places that were brought in this year.
One union official said the cuts would do long-term damage to the economy.
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson said in his annual grant letter to the Higher Education Funding Council for England that the cuts were needed to pay for the\ higher than expected” costs of funding grants record numbers of students during the recession.
The government said it remained committed to ensuring that 50% of school leavers went on to university,which is a central plank of Labour's education policy.
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The oldest and most traditional of tennis tournaments has had a facelift. They still use grass courts,and players must continue to wear white. But at least Centre Court,where most of the big matches take place,will be sheltered from the worst of the British weather. The organ? isers have spent millions of dollars building a retractable roof. So no more damp dismal days for fans and players on the main court.
The innovation has been welcomed by the leading players. Roger Federer will be hoping for an uninterrupted run towards a record breaking 15th Grand Slam title. His task has been made easier by the withdrawal of the man who wrestled the Wimbledon title from him 12 months ago in an epic final. Rafael Nadal's dodgy knees have stopped him from taking part. Britain's obsession with finding a men's champion for the first time in 73 years rests on the shoulders of Andy Murray. He's ranked number three in the world and is considered to have a genuine chance.
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London's biggest university may not receive extra funding unless it proves its\ after a finance crisis, its vice-chancellor has admitted.
London Metropolitan University (LMU) was ordered to repay 36. 5m after issuing false data on student numbers.
LMU's acting vice-chancellor Alfred Morris said it must restore\ and confidence\ after a report criticised its senior officials.
The University and College Union called on its board of governors to resign.
The situation arose because the Higher Education Funding Council for England only pro? vides universities with money for a student who sits all their exams at the end of the year.
LMU admitted it counted students as having completed the period if they moved into the
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next year,regardless of whether they had sat all exams.
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Michael Jackson's body was airlifted from hospital to the coroner's office in downtown Los Angeles. TV stations here carried live coverage of the helicopter's journey. An autopsy will be carried out later today to establish the precise cause of his death.
Paramedics had been called to the Beverly Hills mansion Michael Jackson had been ren? ting whilst he prepared for a series of fifty sold-out shows in London next month. The singer's brother Jermain told a news conference that Jackson was transferred to a nearby hospital where a team of doctors worked for more than an hour in a vain attempt to revive him.
Only a few hours earlier Michael Jackson had been rehearsing at a local sports stadium, but concerns about his fitness for the concert tour had already begun to circulate, amid reports that he was looking frail. For all the controversy that surrounded the latter part of his career several commentators here have likened his musical legacy to that of Frank Sinatra, Bing Cros? by and Elvis Presley.
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A South Korean woman has finally passed her driving test after hundreds of failed at?
tempts. The woman,Cha Ss-soon,who had become somewhat of a celebrity in South Korea,is reported to have passed the written portion of her driving test on the 950th go. But the 68-year- old grandmother won't be buying a car just yet. She still needs to pass a practical driving test before she can get her license.
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The Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has backed appeals for a replay of his national team's football match with France in which an obvious French handball prevented Ireland from qualifying for next year's World Cup. The international governing body FIFA has so far said only the referees' decisions are final. The Chief Executive of the Football Association of Ire? land John Delaney said FIFA must live up to its own principles.
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On the 40th anniversary of his assassination, the American civil rights leader Reverend Martin Luther King Junior was remembered in Atlanta,Georgia and in Memphis,Tennessee. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Ebenezer Baptist Church in Georgia, where King preached,held a commemorative service. Speaking at the event, Jeremy Pond,from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference，said that the struggle started by King must be con? tinued. \ have to continue to lift up the baton,as the baton that came down the aisle this morning,and carry the struggle for another 40 years. It's our turn； it's our responsibility,be?
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cause America must be born again. Meanwhile in Memphis, Tennessee, presumptive Republi? can presidential nominee Senator John McCain visited the motel where King was gunned down