The Law Lords have ruled that evidence possibly obtained by means of torture cannot be admitted in British courts. In a separate ruling, victims of deep-vein thrombosis have lost their appeal to the Law Lords for the right to claim compensation from airlines.
Thirty people are feared dead in a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Baghdad. Meanwhile the kidnappers of Norman Kember, a British peace activist being held in Iraq, have pushed back the deadline at which they have threatened to kill him along with three other hostages. The British government has renewed its call for Mr Kember's release.
Former PM Baroness Thatcher suffered a dizzy spell yesterday, but today has been discharged from hospital with a clean bill of health.
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