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News reporter with a track record of breaking news, investigations, and features for national media in the UK, the US and Argentina.
(Translated Spanish to English for Agencia Púlsar). Uruguayan President José Mujica has sent a letter of apology to the people of Haití following the release of a video that showed Uruguayan militia abusing a young Haitian. He assured that the case will be investigated "up to the most extreme consequences."
(Written for PA, published by Mail Online). Its Quarterly Savings Survey said Britons saved an average of £90 of their monthly income (7.3 per cent), up from £87 in July and a big improvement on the £83 seen in autumn 2010, which was the lowest figure since records began in 2004.
(Written for Press Association, published by BBC) Hart in Hampshire has been named the UK's most desirable place to live for quality of life for the second year running. The study by the Halifax bank took into account factors such as jobs, housing, health, life expectancy, crime, weather, traffic and house prices.
An intense and - artistically at least - morbid figure with a penchant for grandiose facial hair, Cave sings about such disparate topics as murder, Greek mythology and the Christian doctrine of divine intervention.
In the UK, Big Brother is known for turning fame-hungry contestants - the Nadias, Chantelles and Jade Goodys of this world - into instant celebrities. Though normally no more high-brow, Israel's equivalent has this year achieved a surprising twist, by making a superstar out of "Palestine sympathiser" Saar Szekely.
The taxpayer-funded cards have been used to pay for international flights costing almost £1m since 2008, while the bill for hotel stays totals more than £2m. Councillors and officials have travelled to destinations including China, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Bermuda, Jamaica, the US and Canada. Much of the travel was first class.
Minh Nguyen, 38, sparked national headlines as Plaxo co-founder charged with murdering his ex-wife's husband last Thursday. He allegedly broke into ex-wife's home and opened fire in front of children. But former executives of the firm tell DailyMail.com he never worked at Plaxo. He was a school friend of Napster founder Sean Parker.
Ismaaiyl Brinsley shot officers in the head on Saturday in Brooklyn at 3pm. He had travelled 190 miles from Baltimore, Maryland, where he shot his ex. Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu had been eating in their patrol car. Brinsley, 28, then ran to subway station where he shot himself.
Jack Martindale, 25, was hit by a car in early hours of New Year's Day 2010. His new love interest, 19, never woke from coma.
Merlin Entertainments, which owns 44 SeaLife aquaria across the globe, claims to be leading the fight to free Beluga whales and dolphins from captivity, and makes no mention of their performing trio – Junjun, Uka 1 and Uka 2 – on their British websites.
Lawrence Morris, 21, and brother Jim, 20, were butchers when Britain declared war in 1914. They left home in south east London to clear dead warhorses from battlefields. Within 11 months they were driving newly-invented tanks onto front line.
Year in, year out, this is where anyone who’s anyone will be made red carpet-ready for the big night. It was the birth place of Sarah Jessica Parker’s vampy catsuit look last year, and Sharon Stone’s iconic rock ‘n’ roll pixie crop in 2011. I’ve come to just make sure everything is… up to scratch.
With a growing population and mass urbanisation, there are growing global concerns about the dwindling amount of arable land. As such, the last decade has seen a rise in foreign interest in more fertile, open landscapes of lesser-developed countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Pakistan.