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Attempts to alter the UK's relationship with the EU could have "catastrophic" results, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says.
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China Investment Corporation, the country's sovereign wealth fund, buys a 10% stake in the firm that runs London's Heathrow airport.
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The winner of this year's Barclaycard Mercury Prize will be announced in London later, with bookmakers naming indie rockers Alt-J as the favourites.
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The global gap between rich and poor is at its highest level for 20 years and is growing, according to British NGO Save The Children.
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AfghanistanTwo British soldiers shot dead in Afghanistan by a man wearing an Afghan police uniform are named by the Ministry of Defence.
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UK bank Barclays says that it is the subject of two new regulatory probes after a series of scandals and announces it made a loss in the third quarter.
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Lord Heseltine recommends ending a century of centralisation and moving growth funds nearer to industry in his report into boosting UK growth.
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Our daily morning business round-up looks at the main stories in Europe and Asia, including the UK economy emerging from recession.
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IndiaAlastair Cook hits a century in a huge stand with Samit Patel to rescue England on day two of their tour match against India A.
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FijiChris Ashton could miss England's international against Fiji if he is found guilty of making a dangerous tackle on Vasily Artemyev.
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Pakistan, 
United StatesThe UK Supreme Court rules against a legal charity which argued a Pakistani national in US custody should be handed over to the UK.
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IndonesiaIndonesia's president is due in Britain for the first inward state visit of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year.
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United StatesHow Alistair Cooke brought Britain and the US together
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IsraelWhy does the Church of Scotland own a boutique hotel in Israel?
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Serbian police file charges against two England Under-21 players following a brawl at last month's Euro 2013 play-off.
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FranceThe search is called off for a 12-year-old British boy who is missing on an island in the south of France.
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Administrators at the maker of London black cabs, Manganese Bronze, say they are talking to an "encouraging" list of parties interested in its rescue.
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An injury to Steven Finn compounds a testing first day for England in their opening tour match against India A.
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A mother who suffered postnatal depression admits killing her two children, aged 14 months and 10 weeks, at their London home.
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Germany, 
JapanJapan's Hitachi has bought the UK's Horizon nuclear project from German companies E.On and RWE, giving it rights to build new power plants.
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United StatesPassengers flying to the US from the UK continue to have their journeys disrupted as a result of the cyclone sweeping through the area.
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Scottish musician Edwyn Collins is honoured for his contribution to the music industry at the Association of Independent Music Awards, seven years after he almost died from a brain haemorrhage.
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Rust and Bone has won the top prize at the recent BFI London Film Festival and is about to open in the UK. Stars of the film Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts told the BBC's Tim Masters about working on the film.
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Women invited for breast cancer screening in the UK are to be given more information about the potential harms of being tested.
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Royal Mail is to create 1,000 jobs in the UK over the next four years as part of a £75m investment programme for its parcels business.
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United StatesThousands of passengers face disruption with the cancellation of flights between Britain and the east coast of the US as Hurricane Sandy hits.
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New 007 movie Skyfall tops the UK box office with this year's biggest opening weekend of £20.1m, according to figures from film company Sony Pictures.
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Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair says that an elected European president is among measures needed for the EU's future.
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A former BBC governor and Children in Need chief says he had suspicions about Jimmy Savile and would not allow him any involvement with the charity.
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IndiaKevin Pietersen is recalled to the England side and will bat at number four against India A in their opening tour game.
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Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney is the only British player named on Fifa's shortlist for the best player of 2012.
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The River, the hotly anticipated follow-up to Jez Butterworth's smash hit play Jerusalem, receives rave reviews from UK theatre critics.
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UK Paralympic head coach Peter Eriksson will replace Charles van Commenee as UK Athletics head coach.
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One in five workers in the UK is paid less than required for a basic standard of living, a KPMG report claims.
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A cheap test which could detect even low levels of viruses and some cancers has been developed by researchers in the UK.
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AfghanistanEvents are taking place across the UK in support of five Royal Marines charged with murder over an incident in Afghanistan last year.
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Most people in the UK enjoy an extra hour in bed, as clocks go back to mark the return of Greenwich Mean Time.
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IraqIraqi Kurds in Britain begin a campaign for the mass murder of their people in Iraq in the late-1980s to be formally recognised as genocide.
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Cillian Sheridan and Liam Kelly are on target as Kilmarnock win at Celtic Park for the first time since 1955.
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A papal knighthood given to Jimmy Savile "should not have been bestowed", a Vatican spokesman says, as the Catholic Church asks if it can be posthumously removed.
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AfghanistanA Royal Marine and an Army medic who died in Afghanistan were not killed by British forces, an initial Ministry of Defence report says.
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Women who give up smoking by the age of 30 will almost completely avoid the risks of dying early from tobacco-related diseases, according to a study of more than a million UK women.
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London Midland, which has cancelled hundreds of trains because of a driver shortage, expects to cancel 58 more on Saturday.
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FranceThe UK and France have been conducting a major military exercise in the Mediterranean, in what is being hailed as a milestone in closer defence co-operation between the two countries.
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PakistanThe father of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot by the Taliban, has said his daughter is recovering well in the UK.
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TeamGB hockey player Hannah Macleod says it is a "huge relief" as her Olympic bronze medal - one of two stolen at a London nightclub - is returned.
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BelarusA leading dissident in Belarus, Andrei Sannikov, is granted political asylum in the UK, his wife says.
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One of two Olympic bronze medals that were stolen from a nightclub in London has been recovered, police say.
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BelgiumPolice in Belgium are searching for a gunman and an accomplice who killed a senior British oil executive on the streets of the capital Brussels.
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PakistanThe father of the Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot by the Taliban is optimistic about her future as he visits her in a UK hospital.
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PakistanThe father of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot by the Taliban, visits his daughter for the first time at a UK hospital.
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BelgiumA senior British oil executive and father of three is shot dead in a northern suburb of the Belgian capital Brussels, it emerges.
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British acting duo Timothy West and Prunella Scales will be honoured for their commitment to UK regional theatre at this weekend's Theatre Awards UK.
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The animal charity Scottish SPCA is called in to rescue a snake on a plane at Glasgow Airport.
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A group of British musicians, including Robbie Williams and Beverley Knight, join forces to record a single in aid of the families of victims of the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy.
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Entry tests for teacher trainees in England are being made more rigorous to raise the quality of teachers in the classroom, the government says.
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A possible 100,000 to 300,000 homes could be built in the UK every year without using any government money, a study claims.
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Forest swallows secret base where Soviet missiles targeted UK
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PakistanRelatives of the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by a Taliban gunman arrive in the UK where she is recovering in hospital.
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News that the UK economy emerged from recession in the three months from July to September, helped by the Olympic Games, gets a cautious welcome.
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FranceRafael Nadal withdraws from the Paris Masters and ATP World Tour Finals in London because of continuing knee problems.
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Carmaker Ford announces plans to close two UK plants next year, one in Southampton and one in Dagenham, with the loss of 1,400 jobs.
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Serbia and MontenegroSerbia suspends Nikola Ninkovic and Ognjen Mudrinski for a year for their role in the brawl against England Under-21s.
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The UK economy emerged from recession in the three months from July to September, with growth of 1.0%, helped by the Olympic Games.
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The fungus behind the "ash dieback" that has decimated European ash trees is discovered in the UK countryside for the first time.
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AfghanistanThe UK might have to recognise that creating a viable state in Afghanistan is not achievable, an influential group of MPs says.
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The Turner Prize, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Ballet will all feature in Londonderry as part of the UK City of Culture celebrations.
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AfghanistanA Royal Marine and a female soldier have been killed while on patrol in Afghanistan - the woman is the third who has died since the conflict began.
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The Olympics are expected to help the economy show growth in the third quarter of the year, suggesting the double-dip recession is over.
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David Cameron says Britain will continue to defy a European Court ruling saying prisoners must get the vote - after the attorney general said the country must respond to it.
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FranceBradley Wiggins admits it is "more than likely" he will support Chris Froome in the 2013 Tour de France.
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A scheme which has saved energy customers thousands of pounds in parts of Europe could hold the key to lowering prices in the UK.
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United StatesSportswear giant Nike agrees a deal to sell UK sports brand Umbro to US clothing company Iconix Brand Group for $225m.
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SeychellesA man is convicted of the manslaughter of a schoolboy who was fatally stabbed in a gang attack during rush hour at London's Victoria station.
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MadagascarMadagascar 3 has gone straight to the UK box office top spot earning an impressive £6m in its opening weekend.
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Live Nation considers pulling out of staging concerts in Hyde Park in London because of a dispute over the tender process.
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A consistent system of front-of-pack food labelling will be introduced in the UK next year to help shoppers find the healthiest option, the government says.
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In his first interview on UK television since skydiving from 39km (24 miles) up in the atmosphere, Felix Baumgartner has spoken to the BBC's Newsnight about his jump.
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The UK and other major economies will remain weak until banks have sufficient capital to absorb "likely" future losses from bad loans, Sir Mervyn King warns.
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Pakistan, United StatesA High Court hearing into the alleged use of British intelligence in US drone attacks in Pakistan hears such co-operation could be "assisting murder".
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The government announces it will delay a planned cull of badgers in England until next summer, after widespread opposition to the scheme.
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Government figures say the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games came in £377m under budget at a cost of £8.9bn.
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The British public's disillusionment with the European Union is "the deepest it has ever been", Foreign Secretary William Hague warns.
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China, 
KenyaAs China's leadership transition approaches, the BBC hosts a live debate on the country's future with guests in Beijing, Shenzhen, Chicago, Nairobi, Sao Paulo and London.
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Former skipper Andrew Strauss is sure Kevin Pietersen and England can move on from this summer's problems.
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Three men go on trial accused of planning a suicide bombing campaign that prosecutors say could have been on a scale greater than the 2005 London attacks.
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Ospreys fly-half Dan Biggar is named in a 35-man Wales squad for the autumn series while uncapped prop Aaron Jarvis is also called up.
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Jonny Wilkinson believes his Toulon team-mate Steffon Armitage's form is good enough to force his way into the England squad.
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IndiaThe UK's high commissioner in India meets Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat state, ending a 10-year boycott of the controversial politician.
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FranceAs a UK trade delegation tries to boost sales of British food in France, Sophie Van Brugen finds out what Parisians really think of pork pies and cheese sandwiches.
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A new offence of supplying a firearm will be introduced to tackle people who hire out weapons to gangs, Home Secretary Theresa May says.
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United StatesUS auction site eBay paid only £1.2m in tax back in 2010 in the UK, where it generated sales of about £800m, according to an investigation by the Sunday Times.
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Director Tim Burton receives a BFI fellowship at this year's London Film Festival awards ceremony, along with his actress partner Helena Bonham Carter.
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Tens of thousands of people march in London, Glasgow and Belfast in protest against the government's austerity measures.
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Serbia and MontenegroFifa's Jim Boyce says Uefa must consider banning Serbia from future tournaments, after crowd trouble against England.
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FrancePolice investigating the shooting of a British family in the French Alps believe the cyclist also found dead at the scene was killed first, according to a leaked provisional scenario.
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Big hits from the likes of Adele and Calvin Harris helps British artists earn £188m in overseas royalties last year, according to PRS for Music.
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Scotland Yard launches a formal criminal investigation into the Sir Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal after a "staggering" 200 potential victims come forward.
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Pop group Girls Aloud reveal plans for their 10th anniversary reunion at a press conference in London.
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PakistanThe Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban stands up for the first time since the shooting, UK doctors treating her say.
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