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04/11/2009

With Ritula Shah. Five British soldiers are shot dead by an Afghan policeman they had been training; the Parliamentary expenses review says MPs should no longer claim for mortgages.

Five British soldiers are shot dead by an Afghan policeman they had been training. A former foreign office minister, Kim Howells, says most British troops should leave Afghanistan.

An independent review of the system of Parliamentary expenses says MPs should no longer claim for mortgage payments on a second home or employ family members.

The house of the archaeologist Howard Carter, close to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, is opened as a museum.

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