♦ Get Ambulance Service Out of Intensive Care

Read our health reporter's story on the state of the Great Western Ambulance Service on page 2 today and you are left with the impression it is in dire need of some urgent surgery before its problems become terminal.	1 vote

♦ Woman hid dead baby in car boot

A woman who admitted hiding the body of her new born baby in the boot of her car has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence. Claire Jones, 32, became pregnant after an affair with a work colleague but kept it secret from her partner. Cardiff Crown Court heard she gave birth to a boy in December 2007. It was unclear if the child "had an existence" after his birth. Jones, of Cardiff...	1 vote

♦ Land Girls to get WWII honour

The service of tens of thousands of women who worked the land to provide food and timber during World War II is due to be formally recognised. Surviving members of the Women's Land Army and Women's Timber Corps will be presented with badges of honour. Fifty of the women who were dubbed Land Girls and Lumber Jills will go to 10 Downing Street for a ceremony attended by Gordon Brown.	1 vote

♦ Workload May Cause Mental Disorder In Employees

Writing in the July Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), the study's lead author Michael F. Hilton, Ph.D., of The University of Queensland, Australia, based the study on a survey of more than 60,500 full-time employees of 58 Australian companies.	1 vote

♦ Aghahowa wants Nigeria spot back

Nigerian striker Julius Aghahowa says he would love to be given another chance with the Super Eagles. The former Shakhtar Donetsk star has not played for the national side since the Nations Cup of 2006. He has recently ended 18 fruitless months with English Premier League side Wigan and joined Turkish club Kayserispor. And he wants to use the change to prolong his international career.	1 vote

♦ Oil wealth

At first glance it does not look like a place worth fighting over. Equatorial Guinea is a hot and humid state tucked away in West Africa. Its capital, Malabo, is run down a mixture of battered colonial buildings and slums. But look out to sea and there is a glimpse of Equatorial Guinea's changing fortunes. Oil tankers sit in the bay waiting to be filled.	1 vote

♦ Egypt probe into exam paper leak

Egypt has launched an investigation into how secondary school final exam papers were leaked to students. The incident has outraged the public and prompted a debate in parliament. The police have made some arrests, and are still chasing more suspects. Public confidence in the exam system has been further undermined by reports of organised cheating.	1 vote

♦ UK hacker's case before Law Lords

A Briton is taking his fight against US extradition for allegedly carrying out the "biggest military computer hack of all time" to the House of Lords. Glasgow-born Gary McKinnon, a systems analyst, is accused of gaining access to 97 US military and Nasa computers from his north London home. Known as Solo, he was arrested in 2002 but never charged in the UK.	1 vote

♦ Spain police clear truckers' blockade over gas costs

MADRID, Spain (AP) — Spain deployed riot police on Wednesday to lift striking truckers' blockades of a border crossing with France and a major highway outside Madrid and made dozens of arrests. The truckers have disrupted food and fuel supplies in three-day-old nationwide protests over rising fuel prices. In spite of the government's tough action...	1 vote

♦ Donadoni pens new Italy contract

Italy coach Roberto Donadoni has signed a new two-year contract which will see him take charge of the World Champions until the 2010 World Cup. An escape clause has been written into the deal should Italy perform badly at Euro 2008, where they have been drawn in the so-called "Group of Death". Talks on Donadoni's contract, which was due to expire in July, were to take place after the tournament.	1 vote

♦ Foetal screening 'misses defects'

The team behind the work told a European genetics conference that women needed more information about their limitations, and the risks involved. Some tests which sample the fluid around the baby can cause miscarriage. The Royal College of Midwives said that the UK focused on a small number of common defects, with high quality information for women.	1 vote

♦ Ireland to mark famine disaster

The victims of the Irish Famine are to be remembered in an annual official memorial day, which is to be established in the Republic of Ireland. It is believed that about one million people in Ireland starved in the 1840s after the failure of the potato crop. Hundreds of thousands of others emigrated during the disaster, sparking a worldwide Irish diaspora.	1 vote