Two of Baby Peter’s social workers have failed in their attempt to overturn a ruling that they were fairly sacked.

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Comedian Eddie Izzard calls a halt to his attempt to run 27 marathons in 27 days, blaming “unforeseen medical complications”.

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Film director James Cameron begins his attempt to become the first person in 50 years to visit to the deepest place in the ocean, the Mariana Trench.

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Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian planning to sky dive from a record-breaking altitude, has announced he will make the attempt later this year.

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Skydiver planning 36km record bid

NEW YORK — Police cleared New York’s Zuccotti Park early Tuesday so that sanitation crews could clean the site Occupy Wall Street protesters have inhabited for two months, while in Berkeley, Calif., activists planned another attempt at setting up a new camp. Concerns about health and safety issues at Occupy Wall Street camps around the country have intensified, and protesters have been ordered to take down their shelters, adhere to curfews and relocate so that parks can be cleaned. Read full article > >

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With the first two weeks of the regular season expected to be canceled Monday, the N.B.A. and the players union made another attempt to resolve the lockout.

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With the first two weeks of the regular season expected to be canceled Monday, the N.B.A. and the players union made another attempt to resolve the lockout.

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Belgian radio enthusiasts succeed in their attempt to land on the remote North Atlantic islet of Rockall.

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Belgians make rockfall on Rockall

SANAA, Yemen — A suicide attacker driving an explosives-laden car blew himself up Tuesday next to the passing convoy of Yemen’s defense minister, who escaped the attack unharmed, security officials and witnesses said. The assailant detonated his car as Defense Minister Maj. Gen. Mohammed Nasser Ahmed’s convoy passed by on the coastal highway in the southern city of Aden, witnesses said. The ministry confirmed the attack and said in a statement that Ahmed, who survived another attempt on his life last month that killed two of his bodyguards, was unharmed. Read full article > >

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Endurance athlete Diana Nyad begins another attempt at a world-record swim from Cuba to Florida, after an asthma attack halted her last try.

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David Cameron will make another attempt to promote the Big Society, by encouraging more charitable donations and volunteering.

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RICHMOND — A divided Virginia General Assembly pushed back Wednesday against Gov. Robert F. Mc­Don­nell’s proposed changes to the state budget and other bills — overriding his veto of an effort to raise awards in medical malpractice lawsuits and rejecting his attempt to weaken measures that would require businesses to provide insurance for autistic children and mandate that leak-plagued oil tanks in Fairfax be brought up to code.

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Libya’s opposition has thus far held off loyalist militias in Zawiya, a key city 30 miles from Tripoli. But Gaddafi’s mercenaries made another attempt Friday to retake Zawiya, and the clash was bloody: At least 50 people were killed, one witness told…

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Gaddafi Tries to Retake Key Cities

Nearly a week after calls for widespread pro-democracy protests fell flat in China, organizers are making another attempt at rallying support for the so-called “jasmine” demonstrations Sunday.

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Beijing police on alert for rally