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“About three quarters (73%) of adults used the internet in 2009, up from two thirds (63%) in 2007.”
“91% of the population used a mobile phone.”
“Half of all internet users said that using the internet had increased their contact with friends or family who lived further away, and about a quarter said it had increased their contact with friends who live nearby.”
“Social networking sites such as Facebook were among the most popular sites, with 35% of respondents regularly using the internet to keep in touch with family and friends.”
“Twice as many internet users had a social networking site profile (44%) compared with 2007.”
“The miners are believed to have been confined 540m (1,770ft) below the surface following an explosion.”
“Rescuers had to use another entry point nearly 2km (1.2 miles) away from the site of the explosion.”
“In February, a methane gas explosion at a coal mine in the north-west killed 13 workers.”
“The country's worst mining disaster was in 1992, when 270 miners were killed near Zonguldak.”
“Monday's accident is the third incident in a Turkish mine in six months.”
“They are to be sentenced on 20 May.”
“For a poor country, 40% of whose development budget depends on donors, such concerns must be taken seriously”
“to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of the band's singer Ian Curtis.”
“Curtis committed suicide on 18 May 1980.”
“The exhibition, curated by journalist Jon Savage, will be staged at the town's 1813 Sunday School Heritage Centre from 29 July until 7 August.”
“The Joy Division Symphony will take its inspiration from three songs and is currently being composed by students at two local schools alongside musicians from the Northern Chamber Orchestra.”
“According to the IUCN's Invasive Species Specialist Group, the plant has recently become "established and invasive in Europe", affecting parts of Italy and Switzerland.”
“Although Hoffman is listed as an uncredited director of 1978 film Straight Time, this is his first official foray into directing.”
“will follow events that culminate in the one-off reunion concert of a once world-famous foursome of opera singers”
“The findings, in a YouGov poll of 1,244 parents, contrast with data showing the risk of a child being killed by a stranger is a million to one.”
“The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office currently advises against all but essential travel to Bangkok, but Abta, the UK travel association, says that while British tourists are rearranging their holidays, they are not cancelling altoge…”
“The protesters, called red-shirts after the colour they have adopted, converged on Bangkok in March.”
“Mission controllers have a window that stretches into early June to get Akatsuki away and on to its six-month cruise to the inner world.”
“Having studied the forecasts, they will now target a launch at 0658 on Friday local time (2158 GMT Thursday).”
“It will be joining a probe from the European Space Agency that arrived at the planet in 2006.”
“A dense, largely carbon dioxide, atmosphere acts as a blanket, trapping incoming solar radiation to heat the planet's surface to an average temperature of 460C (860F).”
“Surface pressure is about 90 times that on Earth.”
“On Venus, a high-speed wind called super-rotation is blowing all over the planet, in the direction of planetary rotation, with a velocity reaching 400km per hour at an altitude of around 60km from the surface.”
“This wind blows 60 times faster than the planet's rotation, which is very slow (one full rotation takes 243 Earth days).”
“Europe's Venus Express probe recently found lava flows that could have been younger than 250,000 years old.”
“Akatsuki's H-IIA rocket carries with it five much smaller satellites, some weighing just a few kilos.”
“This 320kg, 1.8m-wide, disc-shaped spacecraft will deploy an ultra-thin, ultra-light, membrane.”
“The large sail (14m along the square) will also incorporate solar cells to generate power.”
“it premiered in France on television on Christmas Day”
“Baroque masterpiece valued at £9.2m”
“The painting will be on display at the National Gallery for 18 months”
“The oil painting, measuring 2 x 2.6 metres”
“Domenichino's painting was done for the Giustiniani family in the 1620s.”
“they were among Rome's most important collectors and owned a dozen works by Caravaggio.”
“Rules allow private offers if public access is available to artworks for 100 days within a 12-month period.”
“The painting was purchased by an overseas collector in December 2009”
“The oil painting, measuring 2 x 2.6 metres, is said to be the finest painting by Domenichino to remain in private hands, and the most important of his work in the UK.”
“Magritte, who died in 1967, was one of the best known artists of the 20th Century, creating dream-like surreal images which have become iconic.”
“The Sussex band are at number one in the album chart with Night Train.”
“The full interview with Keane will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme which starts at 1915 BST.”
“Costa Rica's Christiana Figueres is to be the new head of the UN climate convention, BBC News understands.”
“The US-based diplomat, daughter of former Costa Rican president Jose Figueres Ferrer, has taken part in UN climate negotiations since 1995.”
“She emerged as the undisputed front runner only in the last few days.”
“Mr de Boer announced in February that he would step down in the middle of this year to take up a position with global accountancy firm KPMG as a consultant on climate and sustainability issues, and to work with several universities.”
“The Dutch official steered the UNFCCC through the most tortuous phase of its existence, spanning the Bali summit of 2007 that promised a new comprehensive global agreement within two years and the Copenhagen summit of 2009 that failed to d…”
“Following her confirmation, her immediate task will be to rebuild confidence in the UN negotiations in the lead-up to this year's major summit in Mexico at the end of the year.”
“Sir Terry Wogan has called in to his old Radio 2 Breakfast show with news that BBC Children in Need raised a record-breaking £39m this year.”
“In November, the live Children in Need telethon raised £20.3m.”
“Wogan also congratulated Evans for adding a million new listeners, joking that he should have left earlier.”
“Wogan also praised Evans' personal donation of £530,823 to the charity.”
“The new figure of £39m was reached by additional donations after November's telethon.”
“A second of four rounds of grants has been announced with £10.9m going to projects around the UK.”
“The London-based Carers Support Merton, has already received £115,000.”
“It provides support to young carers and is one of 415 newly awarded projects, working to change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK.”
“Since 20 April, oil has been escaping at a rate of 210,000 gallons a day after an explosion on a BP‑leased rig.”
“Their child was born in April 2007, but Murphy did not publicly acknowledge he was her father until four months later.”
“It is the final film in the animated series about the loveable green ogre.”
“We're getting sadder and sadder as we go down the carpet, truthfully,”
“The first of four five-day walkouts had been due to begin at midnight, but will not go ahead following Mr Justice McCombe's decision... The first strike had been scheduled to begin on Tuesday, ending on 22 May, with the three further strik…”
“Icelandic singer Bjork and Italian film composer Ennio Morricone have won the 2010 Polar Music prize.”
“The Polar Prize - founded in 1989 to honour exceptional achievements that transcend music genres - is awarded annually.”
“Bjork and Morricone will both be presented with their awards by King Carl XVI Gustaf at a gala ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on 31 August.”
“Bjork, 44, hit the big time with her solo album Debut in 1993 but had previously had success as the lead singer of The Sugarcubes.”
“She also starred in Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark in 1999, which went on to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes, with Bjork winning the best actress award.”
“Morricone, 82, has composed more than 400 film scores, including The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Untouchables, Cinema Paradiso and The Mission.”
“Previous winners of the Polar Prize include Pink Floyd, Sir Paul McCartney, Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Pierre Boulez and Ravi Shankar.”
“The ship's crew of six are spending the next week at the 350km-high outpost.”
“Other key tasks will include the replacement of six large batteries and the addition to the underside of the platform of a Russian docking and storage module.”
“Three station crew-members took a total of 398 photographs of Atlantis's heat-shield as the orbiter performed a back-flip.”
“The docking occurred at 1428 GMT, with the hatch opening and the movement of the Atlantis crew through into the International Space Station (ISS) taking place a little under two hours later.”
“The shuttles, which have been working in space since 1981, cannot fulfil that role.”
“Atlantis will instead be prepared as a standby vessel ready to go to the rescue of the astronauts on November's flight of the Endeavour orbiter should they get into trouble.”
“Nasa is working towards a September lift-off.”
“The singers performed and answered phones during a telethon in the US, which raised $1.5m (£1.04m).”
“At least 2,000 homes were destroyed or damaged in Nashville after flooding hit Tennessee earlier this month.”
“Country star Taylor Swift donated $500,000 (£340,750) to the cause earlier this month.”
“Keane burst onto the UK music scene in 2004”
“Keane have topped the UK album chart with their EP, Night Train, in its first week of release.”
“Plan B's The Defamation of Strickland Banks and Lady Gaga's The Remix were in second and third place.”
“Night Train has been released just 18 months after Perfect Symmetry, which included the song Spiralling.”
“The EP is the flipside of touring for a year, where each night we'd play a song that we'd had for years,”
“Roll Deep topped the singles chart for the third week in a row with Good Times.”
“Jason Derulo and Usher featuring Will.I.Am, were forced to settle for second and third spot.”
“Four five-day walkouts are due to begin next week, but talks are due at the conciliation service, Acas, on Monday.”
“Unite held seven days of action in March and recently ran an online ballot of its members...”
“Unite has said there was a turnout of 71% of the cabin crew it represents, and 81% voted against BA's offer...”
“The two sides have been in dispute for over a year over cost-cutting plans...”
“"British Airways has not suspended anyone for going on strike. To date, of 27 individuals investigated after allegations (mainly of bullying and intimidation), 20 have returned to work - five without any action taken against them and 15 af…”
“The two sides have been in dispute for over a year over cost-cutting plans, including staff reductions on flights.”
“According to the British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) about half of all existing travel insurance policies will pay for delay and cancellation if the policy and the holiday was purchased before the April eruption.”
“Some of these insurers have a 28 day waiting period before cover will apply, although this should be suitable for your September holiday.”
“In the unusual circumstances that an insurance company declines your claim, a 24-hour medical assistance company will often provide help to you by making all the appropriate arrangements, but they will need someone to guarantee the costs i…”
“The effect of your no-claims bonus being reduced should not occur until renewal, therefore we assume your renewal date fell in between the accident and purchasing your new car.”
“who spent 27 years in jail”
“Gross domestic product per head is some $10,000 (£6,900) in Brazil, almost four times lower than it is for the UK as a whole.”
