India did not join China in blocking sanctions against Burma as we said in a front-page headline in some editions yesterday (As Burmese troops open fire at monks, China and India block global sanctions). The article made clear that Russia and China rejected sanctions at a meeting of the UN security council.

About 60bn barrels of oil are estimated to be lying under the seabed around the Falkland Islands, not 60m, as we said in an article, The new British empire? UK plans to annex south Atlantic, page 1, September 22.

We misspelled the word misspelled twice, as mispelled, in the Corrections and clarifications column on September 26, page 30.

A letter to the editor that appeared under the headline Temperature rises in Bournemouth, page 37, yesterday, referred to the extinction of 20-30 species as a result of a two-degree rise in temperature. The extinction of 20-30% of all species was meant.

It is not correct to say that the idea of Mary's assumption into heaven was not coined until the 1950s (Not much for the secularists to sing about, page 6, Education, September 18). The assumption was not proclaimed as a dogma of the Catholic church until 1950, but the idea goes back to at least the 5th century.

A grand prix circuit map labelled Spa-Francorchamps that accompanied a guide to the remaining races, page 6, Sport, September 15 was actually of the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne, Australia. The circuit details underneath were for Spa-Francorchamps.

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