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Cigarettes are to be forced beneath shop counters with supermarkets and
cornershops banned from displaying tobacco products, The Times has learnt .

The Pope has risked a renewed rift with the Islamic world by baptising a
Muslim journalist who describes Islam as intrinsically violent and
characterised by “hate and intolerance”.

The number of US troops to die in Iraq since the invasion began five years ago
hit 4,000 last night after a roadside bomb in Baghdad killed four soldiers.

If you were to find yourself on the fearsome Nürburgring with a pressing
reason to complete a lap in about nine minutes, the new Porsche Cayenne GTS
would do nicely. It really is extremely fast. Similarly, if you were to
become involved in a life or death battle with 50 tons of fire-breathing
Challenger tank on the Bovington proving ground, I feel certain that this,
the biggest Porsche of them all, would handle the punishment without falling
into a million pieces.

Senior scientists have offered to meet Roman Catholic bishops and MPs to
explain the need for legislation to allow experiments on embryos that are
part-human and part-animal.

<b>DALSTON</b> A shop manager at a Matalan department store in East London was
stabbed to death an hour after closing time during a “robbery gone horribly
wrong”, police said yesterday.

The opening of Terminal 5 at Heathrow last week has been hailed as a new beginning for the airport, but the four older terminals are still a disgrace, according to travellers.

A bank holiday weekend that is seen as heralding the arrival of spring
produced a “white Easter” thought to have been the coldest for a decade.

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Cigarettes are to be forced beneath shop counters with supermarkets and
cornershops banned from displaying tobacco products, The Times has learnt .

Cloned embryonic stem cells have been used to treat animals with Parkinson’s
disease for the first time, in an important step towards developing the
therapy for human patients.

<b>SCANDINAVIA</b> The siskin is heading to British gardens in what could be
the largest numbers for years, the British Trust for Ornithology said. The
black and yellow bird, a member of the finch family, feeds on pine seeds in
Scandinavian forests, but a poor crop this year has led many to cross the
North Sea in search of food. The foreign birds will be competing with native
siskins - the pine-seed crop has also been low in Britain.

You know you are really eating a pig when you sit down to some Gloucester Old
Spot. It is what I call a happy pink in colour, not too bright, and it has
such flavour. One of the favourite dishes on our menu is a Gloucester Old
Spot smoked bacon chop. They are a joy to eat. We just serve it with
potatoes but we use the breed in other dishes.

BAA and the Government are at odds over plans to fingerprint passengers at
Heathrow’s new fifth terminal. The Home Office denies having told the
Spanish-owned airport operator to use fingerprinting as an extra security
measure and the privacy watchdog says that the plan may be illegal.

Supermarket meat that is labelled as coming from a rare native breed is little
more than “mongrel meat”, say breeders who have complained to trading
standards officers.

Senior scientists have offered to meet Roman Catholic bishops and MPs to
explain the need for legislation to allow experiments on embryos that are
part-human and part-animal.

Thousands of heart surgery patients may be at risk from transfusions of blood
that has been stored for two weeks or more.

A new DNA technology hailed as having the potential to solve thousands of
murders, rapes and other serious crimes could lead to innocent people being
convicted, one of Britain’s most respected forensic scientists has warned.

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<b>LONDON</b> The death of an Iraqi hotel receptionist who suffered 93
separate injuries during 36 hours in British military custody in Basra may
be the subject of a public inquiry.