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NEW YORK (AP) -- Mariah Carey's comeback came full circle Thursday as she was nominated for eight Grammy awards, including album of the year for "The Emancipation of Mimi" and song and record of the year for her torch ballad "We Belong Together." Carey's eight nominations was tied with John Legend and Kanye West. Soul crooner Legend's nominations included best new artist, while his mentor West is up for album of the year for "Late Registration" and song of the year for "Gold Digger." 50 Cent, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran left-wing politician Dennis Skinner was thrown out of Parliament on Thursday after accusing opposition Treasury spokesman George Osborne of taking cocaine. In a session of questions on the economy, Skinner responded to an attack from Conservative Osborne, 34, a key ally of the party's new leader David Cameron, on the government's decision to cut its growth forecasts. "In the 1970s and in a lot of the 1980s we would have thanked our lucky stars in the coalfield areas  ...

By Mike Collett-White and Dan Wilchins LIVERPOOL, England/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fans laid flowers and lit candles on Thursday to honour music icon and peace activist John Lennon, 25 years after he was murdered outside his New York apartment. In a small ceremony in the centre of Liverpool where Lennon was born and raised, fans and officials created a shrine beneath a statue of the legendary Beatle and a priest read out a prayer in his memory. Later in the day, the city holds a memorial service  ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday expressed doubt that the Holocaust occurred and suggested that Israel should be moved to Europe. His comments, reported by the official IRNA news agency from a news conference he gave in the Saudia Arabian city of Mecca, follow his call in October for Israel to be "wiped off the map" which sparked widespread international condemnation. "Some European countries insist on saying that (Adolf) Hitler killed millions of innocent Je ...

By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - The Law Lords ruled on Thursday that information gleaned from torture anywhere in the world was unacceptable as evidence in British courts. Rights groups immediately said the ruling sent a clear signal to governments around the world who are wrestling with accusations that they participated in, provided facilities for, or used evidence in court extracted from people detained as part of a CIA programme known as "rendition". The decision by the country's hig ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Hostile ground-to-air fire brought down a British military aircraft which crashed in Iraq in January killing 10 soldiers, defence minister John Reid said on Thursday. The C130 Hercules transport plane crashed 30 kms (19 miles) northwest of Baghdad on January 30 causing the biggest single British loss of life in Iraq and there has been speculation that insurgents had hit the plane with a missile. "The board of inquiry has concluded that the aircraft crashed because it became  ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The jailed killer of a Dutch filmmaker, on trial along with 13 others suspected of plotting attacks and belonging to a militant group, blamed world leaders for fuelling international conflict at his trial on Thursday. Mohammed Bouyeri, who is serving a life sentence for shooting and stabbing filmmaker Theo van Gogh in November a year ago, appeared in court without his lawyer ...

By Katie Allen LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England kept interest rates at 4.5 percent for the fourth month running on Thursday, leaving analysts still divided over when and what the next move in borrowing costs will be. All 45 analysts in a Reuters poll had predicted the Monetary Policy Committee would take no action at its final meeting this year, as policymakers were out in force last month to signal they were in no hurry to move rates in either direction. A majority still expects the MP ...

By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - The Law Lords backed eight terrorism suspects by ruling on Thursday evidence obtained under torture cannot be used in legal hearings, a blow to the government which has used such information. The decision by the country's highest court comes a day after the United States explicitly banned its interrogators from treating detainees inhumanely following widespread anger and pressure from European governments and the U.S. Congress. "Torture is an unqualified e ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's highest court on Thursday ruled against victims of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) who had been seeking compensation from British Airways and other airlines. A group of eight people alleged airlines failed to warn them that the combination of cramped flying conditions and long hours in the air could give rise to DVT, or blood clots, which can be fatal. However, Britain's  ...