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

• Citizens who knowingly take chances face liability • Fear proposed law may hit reporters and aid workers French tourists who run into trouble after taking unnecessary risks overseas could have to pay for their rescue and repatriation under legislation debated today by MPs in Paris. The proposed law, put forward by a government tired of having to foot the bill, would enable the state to demand reimbursement for “all or part of the costs … of foreign rescue operations” if it deems that travellers had ventured knowingly and without “legitimate motive” into risky territory.

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France ponders law on risky trips

Every visit to New York City should include an afternoon or evening on Broadway — whether you take your teens to see “In the Heights” or younger kids to see “Mary Poppins” or “”The Lion King.”

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Taking the kids — to Broadway

Buckingham Palace says fewer foreign trips by Queen helped to trim expenditure on official duties by 12.2% to £38.2m Buckingham Palace has cut expenditure on the royals’ official duties by 12.2% to £38.2m, a saving of more than £3m in the last year, the Queen’s accountant said today.

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Royal spending cut by £3m a year

John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, explains why he would rather be in Devon than in Dar es Salaam.

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John Bercow’s heaven on earth: Woolacombe Bay, Devon

• £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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Cable car plan to link Olympic venues

Security forces boost in China’s north-west region as economic stress divides ethnic groups At one point, Ilham Tohti estimated with a chuckle, he was the richest Uighur in Beijing. But he did not believe money solved every problem

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Xinjiang riots: one year on

India’s biggest public building opens in time for Commonwealth Games, but some have questioned the expense India’s biggest public building, a £2bn terminal at Indira Gandhi international airport in Delhi, opened at the weekend after seven days of religious ceremonies involving 300 priests, and last-minute polishing of its 500,000 square metres of granite floors. The steel and glass terminal is expected to handle 34 million passengers a year and will see its first arrival – a non-stop Air India flight from New York – in 10 days’ time. It is bigger than Terminal Four in Madrid and T5 at Heathrow, but smaller than the terminal in Beijing opened to welcome visitors to the 2008 Olympics.

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£2bn airport terminal opens in Delhi

Since 1984, visionaries in technology, science and entertainment have met at the Ted conference, to share their ideas for a happier, healthier world. Now it’s coming to Oxford So, what is TED? And, more important, why should I care?

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What’s the big idea?

Glitzy Tuscan retreat is trying to stop locals being forced out by wealthy Russian visitors After years of welcoming well-heeled tourists from around the world with open arms, one of Tuscany’s smartest, most discreet beach resorts is in revolt against outsiders, wealthy or not. Forte dei Marmi – the traditional summer retreat for Italian captains of industry, writers and film stars – is changing the law to try to stop locals fleeing because of house prices driven out of control by incoming Russian millionaires. The town’s combative mayor, Umberto Buratti, is reserving space next to luxury villas with sea views for new homes that will only be sold to locally-born buyers or long-term residents

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Italian resort turns against rich