30/09/2016
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India's army says it has carried out "surgical strikes" against suspected militants along the de-facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir. Pakistan correspondent Shaimaa Khalil reports.
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People in their early 30s are half as wealthy as those now in their 40s were at the same age, according to a new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Simon is 32-years-old and Andrew Hood is a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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The chief constable of South Yorkshire Police David Compton will take legal action over the decision to ask him to resign. He was suspended after the Hillsborough inquest verdicts in April. Dr Dorothy Griffiths lost her brother Vincent Fitzsimmons in the Hillsborough disaster.
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Ethical questions around a new gene editing technology need to be considered now - even though its use may be a long way off, experts say. Professor Karen Yeung is one of the authors of the report, and Dr Tony Nolan, is the senior research fellow at the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London.
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Europe's Rosetta spacecraft will crash-land onto a comet which it has been studying for the past two years. Scientists say they are hoping for a final burst of spectacular images. Professor Mark McCaughrean is the senior science advisor at the European Space Agency.
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Dozens of world leaders are gathering in Israel to pay tributes to Shimon Peres, one of the country's founding fathers, who died on Wednesday aged 93. Kevin Connolly reports from Mount Herzl Cemetry in Jerusalem.
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Ben Emmerson QC, the most senior lawyer working for the independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse in England and Wales, has resigned. Michael Mansfield QC is a barrister and Sarah Champion is the MP for Rotherham.
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More on David Crompton, suspended chief council of South Yorkshire, who is to take legal action over a decision to ask him to resign. Sir Tom Winsor is Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary and Dr Alan Billings is South Yorkshire’s police and crime commissioner.
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80 years ago today Pinewood Studios officially opened. How important is having a facility like Pinewood in sustaining a healthy film industry in the UK? Callum McDougall is the executive producer on the four latest James Bond films.
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A senior doctor in rebel-held East Aleppo is claiming that growing numbers of children there are suffering psychiatric illnesses as a result of the continuing bombing by Syrian and Russian planes. Dr Hatem, director of the areas childrens' hospital, has been voicing his concerns to our correspondent Mike Thomson.
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Deutsche Bank is under the most pressure a major lender has faced since the financial crisis, but many trace its woes back beyond the banking crash. Professor John Kay is the British economist and FT columnist.
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More on Europe's Rosetta spacecraft which will crash-land onto a comet it has been studying for the past two years. Monica Grady is professor of planetary and space science at the Open University and Andrea Accomazzo is the spacecraft operations manager at the European Space Agency.
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