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The prime minister and his deputy write a joint letter to cabinet colleagues to remind them that reducing the deficit is the “most urgent issue facing Britain”.

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Paraguayan footballer Salvador Cabanas who survived a gunshot to the head tells investigators he remembers little of the shooting.

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Bone fragments of St John the Baptist appear to have been found on Sveti Ivan Island near Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea.

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Police investigate the death of two people, believed to be a woman and her disabled daughter, at a house in Hertfordshire.

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Michael Schumacher says he is “sorry” if Rubens Barrichello felt he was put in danger by his blocking move at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

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Andrew Flintoff is forced to pull out of what would have been his first game of cricket in 12 months because of fitness concerns.

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Scottish council staff reject a three-year pay offer, paving the way for possible industrial action later this year.

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Portsmouth could have their fate decided at a High Court hearing, which begins on Tuesday.

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Broadcaster ITV says it will be moving into pay-TV as it announces a £97m profit for the first six months of the year.

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North Korea promises “strong physical retaliation” over Seoul’s anti-submarine drills near the disputed Yellow Sea border.

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Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari is to arrive in London later amid domestic fury over comments made by Prime Minister David Cameron.

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The US government says the Gulf oil spill is the biggest leak ever, as BP prepares an operation to permanently seal its well.

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Control over television and radio in Wales should be devolved to ensure the broadcasting industry better meets the needs of its viewers, says Plaid Cymru’s leader.

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American screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz, whose credits included several James Bond films, dies from cancer at the age of 68.

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One man in Indonesia is working into his sixties to keep an old tradition alive.

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