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Criticism is mounting of France’s move to expel hundreds of Roma gypsies.

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India’s army accuses Pakistani troops of firing across the Line of Control that divides the disputed region of Kashmir.

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A disease that first emerged in 2005 is killing large numbers of greenfinches and chaffinches, researchers say.

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The average Briton spends almost half of their waking life using media and communications, often multi-tasking, Ofcom reports.

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The bright young things shunning university to get a head start

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Scores of mourners file into the Anchorage Baptist Temple for the funeral of former US Senator Ted Stevens, who was killed in a plane crash.

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General Motors has paved the way for an initial public offering, expected to be the second largest share sale in US history.

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Aid agencies are reporting a ten fold increase in deaths from cholera and dehydration in Pakistan.

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The Parades Commission accepts a revised application from a loyalist band for its parade through Rasharkin on Friday evening.

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Labour has condemned government plans to review universal welfare payments such as child benefit and the winter fuel allowance, which could be frozen.

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An American woman who was imprisoned for aiding left-wing rebels in Peru turns herself in after a court revokes her parole.

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A US judge who questioned whether Barclays Bank was getting off too lightly approves a $298m settlement over sanction-busting activities.

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Rupert Murdoch’s News America Inc, parent company of Fox News, donates $1m to the Republican Governors Association.

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A Scottish bagpiper, who played his fellow soldiers ashore during the D-Day landings in 1944, has died in hospital in Devon at the age of 88.

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President Barack Obama says an over-supply of homes is hindering the US economic recovery, but he says the situation is slowly improving.

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