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a nine—year—old girl dead. olivia pratt—korbel died on monday night after two men, one armed with a gun, ran into her house. joseph nee, a former drug dealer and believed to be the target of the attack, has been arrested. the police are appealing for more information. and a fine of £1,000 faces anyone who breaches a hosepipe ban imposed by thames water in the south of england from today. coming up on the bbc news channel rangers seek to make the group stages of the champions lea...

So now thames water has brought in a hosepipe ban affecting ten million customers across the thames valley and london. no more hosepipes to water gardens, wash cars or fill paddling pools until further notice. a breach could get you a £1,000 fine. but leaks, say critics of the industry, are as big a problem as heat. the company loses almost a quarter of the water it supplies and admits it must do better. leakage is a priority for us 24/7, 365 days a year. last year we fixed over 60,000 leaks, e...

Demand. and now russia is seizing on research apparently that you co-authored that this 300-barrel figure could really be reality. are they correct? >> yes, they are. when i heard the threat on monday, i pulled the paper and worked the math out, and its there to the dollar. you know, we wrote this paper in 2010. the price elasticity demand for oil is very elastic. once youve filled your car with 15 gallons, the value of the 16th gallon goes to zero. if you need that extra gallon to get to grandm...

so from new york to san francisco, people in long lines outside grocery, convenience and liquor stores waiting to buy mega millions tickets. wait times hit two hours outside the blue bird liquor store in hawthorne, california, near los angeles. why are people waiting there? well, it sold $20 million worth of winning tickets over the years. and st. marys, georgia, population 17,000, bursting at the seams today thanks to people driving across the border from florida. floridas one of eigh...

Secondly, can saudi arabia ramp up production quickly in the event of a supply crisis. the answer according to the american diplomats is no, they cant. theres another side to the story. the americans were taking a side here and theres two sides to the argument. inside saudi arabia, there are other officials who are saying we have no problem, weve got 900 billion barrels of oil in reserve. we can ramp up production whenever we want to. >> prove it. >> yes. that might come to pass in the event of ...