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A police officer has gone on trial for raping a woman he met at a nightclub in Belfast city centre in March 2009.
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HSBC, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland will all have to restructure their businesses Chancellor George Osborne is to force banks to ring-fence their retail operations from investment banking.
In a speech on Wednesday he will say banks must be set up so that their branches and public savings and loans would not be damaged if their trading arms ran into trouble.
The legal separation of the functions of big banks was recommended by the Independent Commission on Banking.
He will also announce the privatisation of Northern Rock.
The former mutual was nationalised in 2008, in the early stages of the financial crisis.
Mr Osborne will also say that banks will have to hold more capital to protect themselves against future losses than the new international minimum of 7%.
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The 24-year-old singer is worth £9m, says the Sunday Times Rich list Two men are being held on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and to rob after being arrested near the Devon home of singer Joss Stone.
The men, aged 33 and 30, were arrested after a suspicious vehicle was seen in the Cullompton area on Monday.
BBC South West Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Hall said a senior police source confirmed the men were found carrying swords, plans of the singer’s home and a body bag.
Major crime police are investigating.
The men were initially arrested for possession of offensive weapons and being equipped to steal.
Devon and Cornwall Police said: “Police attended an address in Cullompton after alert residents notified officers about a suspicious-looking vehicle.
“Officers attended the area at around 1000 BST and subsequently arrested the occupants of a red Fiat Punto.
“Major crime detectives are continuing to investigate.”
Last month, the Sunday Times Rich list placed 24-year-old Miss Stone, who grew up in the county, as the fifth wealthiest British and Irish pop star aged under 30 with a fortune of about £9m.
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David Cameron says the head of the navy agrees the UK can sustain its military intervention in Libya, despite raising doubts earlier this week.
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The government confirms that Col Gaddafi will not be attending the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Archaeologists have uncovered the first evidence of the home-brewing of beer in southeastern France – from some 2,500 years ago.
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Translink has announced that it is to hold bus and rail fares across all of its services at last year’s levels.
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Human Rights Watch says China is covering up the extent of lead poisoning among children and sending sick children back to contaminated homes.
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Qantas airlines cuts its forecast for domestic growth as it grounds more flights due to ash from volcano in Chile.
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A dinosaur found in Australia is almost identical to a well-known fish-eating one from the UK, suggesting northern and southern hemisphere dinos had a lot more in common than previously thought.
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Libyan rebels have been trying to push out from Misrata in the west Libyan rebels say forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi have been launching attacks at a strategic border crossing with Tunisia.
Witnesses said pro-Gaddafi forces also fired rockets over the border.
Near Tripoli, Nato said it had hit several military targets, while an air strike was also reported near Col Gaddafi’s compound inside the capital.
Meanwhile, Canada has become the latest country to recognise Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC).
Correspondents say there has been a resurgence in fighting in Libya, following weeks of military stalemate.
Omar Hussein, a spokesman for rebels in the western Nafousa mountains, said Col Gaddafi’s forces were bombarding roads leading to the border crossing of Dahiba.
Rebels seized a number of towns in the area earlier this month, and Dahiba is a key supply route for them.
Witnesses told Reuters news agency that pro-Gaddafi forces had fired Grad rockets over the border into Tunisia.
In the western, rebel-held city of Misrata, rockets damaged generators at an oil refinery near the port, disrupting fuel supply lines, Reuters reported.
Nato said it had carried out strikes in Misrata late on Monday, and had struck targets including a rocket launcher and an armoured vehicle mounted with anti-aircraft guns east of Tripoli on Tuesday.
Rebels were said to be advancing towards Zlitan, just west of Misrata.
On the eastern front, a rebel commander told AFP news agency that 21 rebel fighters had been killed in clashes on Monday.
Inside the capital, a column of smoke rose from near Col Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziya compound, though it was not clear exactly what had been targeted.
Nato has frequently pounded the area in and around the sprawling compound.
The latest strikes came amid concerns about the length of the Nato’s mission in Libya.
Gen Stephane Abrial, a senior Nato official, said coalition resources would become “critical” if the operation in Libya continues.
And on Monday the head of the British Navy, Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, said on Monday that priorities must change if the mission exceeds six months.
Col Gaddafi and Kirsan Ilyumzhino played chess on Sunday But the head of the British armed forces, General Sir David Richards, told the BBC: “We can sustain this operation as long as we choose to”.
Nato took over the Libyan mission on 31 March.
South Africa’s President, Jacob Zuma, said the UN resolution that authorised the use of force to protect civilians in March was being abused for “regime change, political assassinations and foreign military occupation”.
On Tuesday Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the Russian head of the World Chess Federation, said Col Gaddafi had told him that he was ready to hold talks if Nato stopped its air strikes, but dismissed international efforts to get him to stand down.
The two played a game of chess in Tripoli on Sunday.
“I will not go anywhere, my relatives died here and I will also die in that land,” Mr Ilyumzhinov quoted the Libyan leader as saying.
Libya condemned a visit by the German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, to Benghazi, calling it a “blatant violation of national sovereignty and… international laws”.
Canada and Germany are the latest countries to recognised the NTC, which is based in the eastern city, as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.
“We share the same goal – Libya without Gaddafi,” Mr Westerwelle said.
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Turkey says over 8,000 Syrians have sought refuge over the border, as Syrian tanks spread out around towns and villages near the border, widening a crackdown on 12 weeks of anti-government protests.
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A union will announce the results of a strike ballot on Wednesday, amid fears hundreds of thousands of public sector workers could stage a walkout.
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The UK presses Sri Lanka to investigate alleged atrocities during its civil war after “horrific” video of apparent prisoner killings aired in a TV programme.
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One in six children are being taught in classes according to their ability by the time they are seven, research suggests.
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