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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Class of 2010 told to consider flipping burgers or shelf stacking to build skills as they also compete with last year’s graduates Graduates are facing the most intense scramble in a decade to get a job this summer, as a poll of employers reveals the number of applications for each vacancy has surged to nearly 70 while the number of available positions is predicted to fall by nearly 7%. The class of 2010 have been told to consider flipping burgers or stacking shelves when they leave university as leading firms in investment banking, law and IT are due to cut graduate jobs this year. Competition in the jobs market is fiercer now than for the first “post-crunch” generation of students, last year, when there were 48 applications for each vacancy.

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Opponents say it is ‘confusing’ to vote in referendum on electoral reform on same day as local elections The coalition government is facing the first serious challenge to its stability as Labour, nationalist parties and Tory backbenchers combined to oppose the choice of 5 May next year for the referendum on a new voting system for the Commons.

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Chilcot inquiry hears that Sally Keeble, deputy to international development secretary, claimed her decisions were disastrous The extent to which Britain’s role in helping Iraqis after the invasion was sabotaged by upheaval within the Blair government was exposed today as it emerged that decisions by Clare Short, the international development secretary, had been described at the time as “disastrous” by her deputy. Stinging criticism of Short’s department was disclosed in declassified documents to the Chilcot inquiry as it heard evidence from Sally Keeble, Short’s deputy at the Department for International Development (DfID) who was unseated in Northampton North at the general election.

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Interim leader wins election despite last-minute surge in support for late Polish president’s twin brother A surge of sympathy after his twin brother was killed in a plane crash was not enough to propel Jaroslaw Kaczynski to the Polish presidency, as results from Sunday’s election gave a narrow victory to his centre-right rival Bronislaw Komorowski. Komorowski won the presidential vote by 53% of the votes to 47% for Kaczynski, according to final results released this afternoon. Komorowski was initially hesitant about declaring victory as the count swung back and forth

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• £1bn cut from education budget and Sure Start hit • Labour spending pledges not funded, says coalition Read the full list of cancelled projects Michael Gove today cancelled Labour’s school building programme, suspending projects for 715 new schools as part of the coalition’s latest tranche of spending cuts, which also saw funding culled for new housing projects, school swimming pools and eco-towns. The coalition has acknowledged for the first time that it is to target Sure Start in its austerity measures, primarily by finding underspends and reducing inefficiencies. But the Department for Education warned it would cut core funding for future Sure Start building projects as a “last resort”

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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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Dutch government finds minor inaccuracies in contested paper, but reasserts that ‘climate change poses “substantial risks” to most parts of the world’ The first major independent review of criticisms of the global assessment of climate change led by the United Nations declared today that it found “no errors that would undermine the main conclusions” of the panel of international scientists that climate change will have serious consequences around the world. However the Dutch panel of experts claims it found 12 errors – from a criticism of the number of people in Africa at risk of water shortages to mistakes in references or typing. It also suggested the summary version of the report had portrayed an over-dramatic picture by putting the emphasis on negative impacts of climate change, and it failed to explain some of the threats were not only driven by climate change

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Greek Cypriots angry at invitation to attend the inauguration of a hotel in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus Singer Jennifer Lopez may have given it little thought when she accepted a seemingly innocuous invitation to celebrate her 41st birthday in northern Cyprus. The deal: a sun-soaked stay en famille at a $220m destination described as the “single biggest hotel project both sides of the island” in exchange for a one-off performance to celebrate its opening. But on the Island of Love, where memories of war are never far removed, the star appears to have walked into a political minefield

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Government reveals papal visit is to cost up to £4m more than estimated, before policing costs are taken into account The pope’s visit to Britain in September will cost the taxpayer up to £12m, not including policing costs, a rise of £4m on the previous estimate. Disclosing the figures today, Lord Patten, the prime minister’s special representative for the papal visit, said its “complexity and sophistication” had been underestimated and the government’s contribution would rise from the orginal forecast of £8m. The total bill could reach £23m, with the balance being funded by the church.

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