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THOUSANDS of people are volunteering to be guinea pigs in clinical drug trials because of the recession and rising unemployment.
THE man at the centre of an international police hunt following the shooting dead of an Irish father-of-two has a string of convictions for violent crime and has been on the run from British police for four years.
THE family of a man believed to have been murdered by the IRA almost 30 years ago faces a month- long wait for confirmation that his remains have been found.
ISRAEL must lift its military blockade of the Gaza Strip and invite an independent, fact-finding mission to investigate its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a United Nations rights body said.
SOLDIERS killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid on his posh hideout, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico's most powerful drug gang since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against organised crime in 2006.
DAVID GILLICK was one of the victims as last night's 400m final turned the form book upside down and the lesser-known of the two Borlee brothers, Kevin, stormed to victory at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona.
THE Central Bank has said the economy should grow marginally this year before picking up pace next year, but warned a decline in the unemployment rate is unlikely in 2010.
THE State is getting into the retail shopkeeping business, selling bras and knickers, shoes and shirts, beds, chairs and tables, pots and pans, televisions and games consoles, luggage and lots else too.
For too often in recent years many of the biggest events and festivals in Ireland have been dogged by bad weather, which is such a pity given the amount and energy, money and good will which goes into delivering each event.
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