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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Cheryl Cole has malaria, say friends

Trial by cobbles could further unsettle Tour de France contenders who are already battered and bruised So, after two quiet, uneventful days of the 2010 Tour de France, the riders head for the cobbles. With almost all the major contenders nursing bumps and scrapes, some more serious than others, the last thing any of them wants to do today is ride across nine miles of bone-jarring pavé .

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Riders prepare for bump and grind

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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Graduates warned of record 70 applicants for every job

It can be chaotic when you go in and everyone’s bewildered. You have to get the trust of everyone, including the dog I have been a Marie Curie nurse for 10 years, looking after terminally ill people in their own home. We see patients from all different backgrounds, from every walk of life; I might be in a block of flats, or suburban house, one day, or a country cottage or farmhouse

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BBC Trust halts plans to close digital radio station in a report that also criticises BBC1 for dearth of ‘creative risk’ Four months after declaring it attracted too few listeners to justify its existence, the BBC yesterday scrapped its proposal to close the digital radio station 6 Music, following a vociferous public campaign. The reprieve, announced by the BBC Trust, the corporation’s governing body, in its interim response to the closure plans put forward in March, prompted jubilant scenes at the station’s London base, where one senior insider described the atmosphere as: “A mix of celebration, amazing belief in people power – and relief.” The trust said: “The case has not been made for the closure of 6 Music,” but there was no such good news for Asian Network, another digital radio station that caters to a small but under-represented audience, which will close as planned

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The CWU was warned by its lawyers that ‘technical breaches’ meant BT would probably have overturned the result in the courts A ballot that could have brought more than half of BT’s staff out on strike has been cancelled following legal advice. The Communication Workers Union abandoned the vote after its lawyers warned that “technical breaches” meant BT would probably have overturned the result in the courts

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Michael Steele under pressure to resign after saying US cannot win in Afghanistan, a ‘war of Obama’s choosing’ The leader of the Republican party in the US, Michael Steele, is under pressure to resign after he suggested that the US cannot win in Afghanistan and described the conflict as a “war of Obama’s choosing”. Steele’s comments highlighted divisions among those conservatives who support the war and others, particularly within the Tea Party movement, who object to the billions of tax dollars being spent in Afghanistan and Iraq. One leading Republican senator said the latest in a string of gaffes by Steele “could not have come at a worse time” for the party, prior to November’s midterm elections

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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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Mixture of motives persuades villages to maintain practice that often leaves lasting effects on young girls The old Kurdish midwife’s hands trembled alongside a bowl that she positions to catch dripping blood. She picked up a razor blade and sliced through a corner of paper, mimicking the ritual cut she has performed at least 500 times, on young girls’ genitals

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How female circumcision survives in Kurdish Iraq

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