An initiative aimed at speeding up justice in magistrates’ courts is leading to miscarriages of justice, defence lawyers tell the BBC.

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New policy ‘hinders’ fair trials

At least six policemen are killed and four wounded in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, officials tell the BBC.

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Afghan ambush kills six policemen

Dissident republicans are continuing to target police officers, despite the widespread condemnation of the murder of Ronan Kerr last weekend, police sources tell the BBC.

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Dissidents ‘target more officers’

Treasury sources tell the BBC that a lowering of corporation tax in NI could happen next year.

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Corporation tax cut ‘next year’

Big rises in food prices are likely over the next year, livestock farmers in Suffolk tell the BBC Politics Show in the East.

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Farmers warn of food price rises

Controversial US pastor Terry Jones has been excluded from the UK for the public good, government sources tell the BBC.

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Koran-protest pastor gets UK ban

Pakistan’s minorities minister and an MP tell the BBC they will defy death threats they have received for their calls to reform blasphemy laws.

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Blasphemy reformer death threats

Banks and building societies tell the BBC they do not expect any significant recovery in mortgage lending next year.

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Mortgage recovery ‘not in sight’

A senior officer in the Democratic Republic of Congo has used the military to illegally profit from a gold mine, sources tell the BBC.

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Congo general ‘profits from gold’

One of two British soldiers murdered by dissident republicans in Antrim last year wanted to build a life in Northern Ireland, his parents tell the BBC.

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Azimkar parents’ ‘lives ruined’

At least eight al-Qaeda militants – some of whom were German nationals – are killed in a drone attack in Pakistan, officials tell the BBC.

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‘Germans killed’ in drone attack

Burma’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is on a voters’ list for the first general election in 20 years, eyewitnesses tell the BBC.

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Burma’s Suu Kyi ‘on voters’ list’

US troops are called in to help Iraqi forces battle insurgents behind a deadly attack on an Iraqi army base in Baghdad, security officials tell the BBC.

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US troops summoned in Iraq attack

Somali fighters storm a hotel close to the presidential palace and kill several MPs, witnesses tell the BBC.

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