Singer contracted virus after being bitten by mosquito during holiday in Tanzania, according to reports Cheryl Cole is in hospital after having caught malaria during a holiday in Tanzania three weeks ago, it was reported last night. The singer was initially diagnosed with exhaustion after collapsing during a photoshoot for her forthcoming record release on Saturday. She was admitted to a Surrey hospital after her condition worsened considerably the next day.

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Gout is agony, it’s on the increase – and you don’t have to binge like Henry VIII to get it, writes sufferer Patrick Weir The attack came out of the blue and the pain was excruciating. Getting out of bed one morning, I placed my feet on the floor – and lurched headlong into the blanket box.

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Armed officers from six forces searched Newcastle and the surrounding area, trying to track down the 37-year-old The hunt intensified tonight for Raoul Moat, the Newcastle bodybuilder suspected of killing one man and seriously injuring his former girlfriend and a police officer in a shooting spree, as it emerged that police were warned he wanted to cause serious harm to his ex-partner before he allegedly struck. Armed officers from six forces searched Newcastle and the surrounding area, trying to track down the 37-year-old, who friends and acquaintances said would not give himself up easily and was likely to prefer to be shot by police. Amid fears that Moat could strike again, police mounted at least two operations in which they arrested the wrong people.

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A couple of parents have been criticised for letting their young children cycle a mile to school At what age should children be allowed to cycle unsupervised?

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When can kids cycle on their own?

Serviceman from Royal Dragoon Guards died on vehicle patrol in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province A British soldier was killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan today, the Ministry of Defence said.

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This image from the Planck telescope is a first instalment from its survey of the universe’s hidden structure Giant clouds of interstellar gas and dust light up this panoramic view of the sky recorded by the European Space Agency’s Planck telescope .

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Telescope captures ancient light from Big Bang

• £25m scheme would be paid for with private finance • London mayor hails benefits of eastern river crossing The Thames has been spanned by bridges (both solid and wobbly), crossed by ferries, and even the occasional ice skater, but a proposal unveiled today would see cable cars gliding 50 metres above the river and transporting thousands of people an hour between the Greenwich peninsula and the Royal Docks. The £25m scheme, devised by Transport for London (TfL), would increase the number of river crossings east of Tower Bridge, serve as a tourist attraction, and cut travel times between two major Olympic and Paralympic venues – the O2 and ExCeL – ahead of the 2012 games. According to TfL, the cable car system could provide a crossing every 30 seconds and carry up to 2,500 passengers an hour in each direction — the equivalent of 50 busloads.

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Catherine Madden dies at south coast cliff as body of Keira, 4, is found at family home A mother killed herself at almost exactly the same time as her four-year-old daughter was found dead at the family home, police said yesterday. Counsellors were talking to Catherine Madden, 40, shortly before her death at Seven Sisters cliff at Birling Gap in East Sussex on Saturday afternoon. At almost the same time, police traced Madden’s car, which had been abandoned at Birling Gap, to her home in Felpham, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, where they found the body of her daughter, Keira, in the bedroom

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Afghan court overturns conviction of former British army officer over $25,000 payment for release of company cars A former British army officer jailed for two years for bribery in Afghanistan has been cleared on appeal after a judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict him. Bill Shaw, a manager at G4S, the private security company that guards the British embassy in Kabul, was sentenced to two years in one of Afghanistan’s toughest prisons and fined $25,000 for bribing an Afghan official in April this year. He had argued that the money was not a bribe, but a legitimate payment.

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Fire tears through houses after tanker overturns and explodes in a village in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo More than 200 people were killed and 100 injured when a fuel tanker overturned and exploded in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo late yesterday.

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