Germany keeps 4-point lead with 2-0 win at Wales

Germany maintained its four-point lead at the top of its World Cup qualifying group with a 2-0 win at Wales on Wednesday.

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150 whales die in stranding in Australia

A group of 150 whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them.

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Apparent Suicides Shock Welsh Town

There is a deepening sense of foreboding and hopelessness in this South Wales market town as the number of young people who have killed themselves keeps rising. The death toll now is seven.

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Phrases like "obesity crisis" and "binge drinking" frequently hit the headlines over the last 10 years, but many of us were hitting the gym and eating our five a day.

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For most of the UK it will be a cold start to the New Year with freezing weather for most with ice over England and Wales, widespread Snow in Scotland. Temperatures should drop to drop to 28F (-3C) in England and Wales on Thursday night, New Year's Eve.

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A young girl abducted and sexually assaulted by paedophile Craig Sweeney on early release from jail has had her compensation "significantly increased".

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Sub-national impetus at Copenhagen

Copenhagen Observations: Episode 2:

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CHRISTMAS pickpockets will hear the sound of jingling bells if they try to pinch women's purses this Yuletide. Police are handing out bells to shoppers on Anglesey over the festive season. The initiative aims to warn people if anyone has their hand on their purse.

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THE lawnmower that will be used in an attempt to break the world land speed record was unveiled in Wales today.

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Teacher and songwriter Tom Rugg from Tintern, Monmouthshire, has enjoyed an internet hit with The Polar Bear Song, written to raise awareness of climate change among children.

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This owners Bichon Frise is a real "life saver". His name is "Boris" and his owner has sleep apnoea. He sleeps at her bedside and awakens several time nightly to gently put his paw on his mistress's chest to alert her that she's stopped breathing.

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A WIFE posed as a teenage girl to trap her paedophile husband on the internet. Former pub licensee David Anthony Roberts, 69, sat in front of his computer webcam thinking there was a 14-year-old child looking at him.

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A HUNGRY pooch looking for food set fire to his owner's kitchen – causing £6,000 damage.

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The DNA of most innocent people arrested in England and Wales will no longer be held for more than six years, the Home Office has confirmed. But police may be allowed to keep DNA from those arrested for terrorism, even if they are freed or found not guilty.

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A British man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mug shot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down.

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Two thugs who attacked what they thought were a pair of transvestites picked on the wrong men - when their intended victims turned out to be cage fighters on a night out in fancy dress.

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Women dying drug-related deaths in England and Wales rose by 17% in 2008 to 853, according to the Office for National Statistics; male deaths also rose 8% compared with 2007 to 2,075 - the highest total since 2001.

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Law professor John Spencer will argue that the current age of consent, fixed at 16, criminalises 'half the population'. His controversial views will be debated on the BBC Radio 4 programme Iconoclasts tomorrow evening.

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One of Europe's rarest bats has been found at a site in Wales further west than ever before recorded.

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"MASS brawls broke out between Muslim and white groups on the streets of Swansea on the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

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A man was convicted today of murdering his partner less than a fortnight after she changed her status to single on Facebook. Brian Lewis stabbed and strangled Hayley Jones at the home they shared with their four children.

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A blind man who complained to police about cars parking on a pavement was arrested when he threatened to let down the vehicles' tyres.

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A silver pocket watch which lay on the seabed for almost 130 years is being returned to the family of its owner.

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A duck who faced being put down after fracturing a leg has been given a new lease of life thanks to a specially-made sandal.

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Cumbrians lobby for Celtic nationhood through internet network

It's known as the Celtic fringe; the six regions on the fringe of Europe which have maintained enough of their ancient Celtic languages and culture to be recognizable today.

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BBC Magazine article by Richard Knight fact checks a xenophobic and anti-Muslim propaganda video which claims that Muslims will take over Europe and install Islamic Emirates.

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Russian football fans have been told to drink whisky on their trip to Wales for next month's World Cup qualifier to ward off the swine flu virus, the head of the country's supporter association (VOB) said today.

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sut mae, croeso i Gymru hello, welcome to Wales

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