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Japan’s central bank keeps its interest rate unchanged as it tries to nurture the country’s slow recovery from recession.

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Aston Villa are looking for a new manager after the shock departure of Martin O’Neill only five days before the start of the new Premier League season.

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More than 1,200 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan in the first six months of 2010, up 31% from the same period a year ago, the UN says.

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International Power agrees a tie-up with French utility GDF Suez, bringing to an end months of negotiations between the two.

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Why the US keeps minting this coin when people won’t use it

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A serious collision between a van and a lorry closes a section of the M42 in Worcestershire in both directions.

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The funeral of Bradford woman Suzanne Blamires whose remains were found in the River Aire, is due to take place later.

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Fishermen in Britain have a one in 20 chance of being killed on the job during the course of their working lives.

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Almost half of all local authorities in Wales miss recycling targets set down by the Welsh Assembly Government.

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China’s import growth slowed in July, which economists see as a sign that the country’s rapid economic expansion is cooling.

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The United Nations is to launch an appeal to help Pakistan tackle the country’s worst flooding in 80 years.

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Rescuers in north-west China are continuing a frantic search for more than 1,100 people missing after a huge landslide that has claimed 337 lives.

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A ship carrying hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers is heading towards Canada’s west coast, Canadian officials say.

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The mother of a backpacker murdered in an unsolved killing in Thailand 10 years ago says she will “never give up” in her long wait for justice.

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The authorities say that they are searching Yellowstone National Park, in the US states of Wyoming and Montana, for outlaws John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch.

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