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We have started to collect the most important news related to United Kingdom in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Some of the UK's rarest bumblebees are at risk of becoming extinct as a result of inbreeding, research suggests.
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Charles Saatchi's plan to donate his gallery to the British public hits a stumbling block after talks with Arts Council England break down.
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The EU budget commissioner says he sees no grounds for the UK to keep its budget rebate.
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Customers of Orange and T-Mobile will soon be able to hop between the two mobile networks as the firms merge their networks.
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Tony Blair cancels a planned book signing in London on Wednesday to prevent causing the police "a lot of hassle".
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The Brit Awards are to move to the O2 Arena in east London from Earl's Court in the west of the city.
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The number of foreign students let into the UK is "unsustainable", minister Damian Green will say in his first major speech on immigration.
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Severe disruption is expected on London's Underground network when the first in a series of strikes begins later.
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British Airways and Iberia draw up a shortlist of 12 airlines which the firms hope to buy or merge with.
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The secrets behind some of the UK’s newest inventions
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United StatesBritain's Andy Murray goes out of the US Open after suffering a dramatic slump against 25th seed Stanislas Wawrinka.
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AfghanistanA British soldier dies in hospital of injuries he received in an explosion in Afghanistan, the second British casualty in 24 hours.
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PakistanEngland underline their status as World Twenty20 champions as they cruise to victory in the first of two internationals against Pakistan.
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PakistanEngland beat Pakistan by five wickets with 2.5 overs to spare in the first Twenty20 international in Cardiff.
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The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales says taxpayers should help fund the Pope's visit because it is an official state event.
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IraqFormer head of the Army Gen Sir Richard Dannatt accuses Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of letting down British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Bulgaria, 
SwitzerlandEngland and Tottenham defender Michael Dawson will miss the game with Switzerland after being ruled out for at least six weeks.
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England coach Andy Flower says he is satisfied with spin bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed's role within the team despite previous links with illegal bookmakers.
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PakistanA lawyer for the three Pakistan players at the centre of allegations of corruption says they are keen for a "timely and satisfactory outcome" to the affair.
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AfghanistanViolence in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, the UK's most senior military commander in the country tells the BBC.
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Some 77% of Britons think taxpayers should not help pay for Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Scotland and England, a survey suggests.
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Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the BBC that radical Islam is the greatest threat facing the world.
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Bulgaria, SwitzerlandJermain Defoe scores three goals as England begin their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign with a 4-0 win over Bulgaria at Wembley.
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United StatesBritain's Andy Murray overcomes the unorthodox style of Jamaica's Dustin Brown to reach the third round of the US Open.
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Montenegro captain Mirko Vucinic scores a fine solo goal to condemn Wales to defeat in their opening Euro 2012 qualifier.
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HSBC may quit its London headquarters if the UK government decides to break up big banks, a senior executive says.
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England and Northern Ireland kick off their Euro 2012 qualifying campaigns with victories, Scotland draw and Wales lose on a busy night of international football.
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A former MI6 worker is given a 12-month jail sentence for trying to sell top secret material for £2m.
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FranceDefence Secretary Liam Fox rules out the UK sharing aircraft carriers with France as part of closer defence co-operation.
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Bulgaria, SwitzerlandEngland coach Fabio Capello says he hopes the pressure of expectation over the team's Euro 2012 qualifier with Bulgaria will bring out the best in him.
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Alcohol consumption has fallen faster than ever, figures from the British Beer and Pub Association suggest.
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Toshiba’s UK business manager says its Foilo 100 tablet PC complements trends in media usage.
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England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.
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PakistanBritish singer-songwriter Sami Yusuf, billed as "Islam's biggest rock star", is donating profits from his latest single to help flood victims in Pakistan.
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A former Britain's Got Talent hopeful who claimed she was discriminated against at an audition fails to get her case taken to an employment tribunal.
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The Scottish government says drinkers should be charged a minimum of 45p for every unit of alcohol as part of efforts to cut consumption.
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Four of the "big six" UK energy suppliers are to be investigated amid concerns of mis-selling to customers, the regulator says.
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GreenlandFour Greenpeace activists are arrested after giving up their occupation of a Scottish company's drilling rig off Greenland.
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The British company behind the Hawk-Eye ball-tracking technology used in tennis and cricket is to be put up for sale.
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A three-year report into currency dealing shows rapid growth in trading, with the majority of trades happening in London.
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Kevin Pietersen will make his debut for Surrey against Worcestershire on Wednesday following his omission from the England one-day and Twenty20 squads.
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Figures reveal stark geographical divisions in the toll alcohol takes on health in England.
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PakistanKevin Pietersen is omitted from England's limited overs series against Pakistan, with the England batsman announcing the news via Twitter.
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PakistanThe England team believes the Pakistan players named in the betting probe that has engulfed the tourists should sit out the rest of the tour.
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PakistanInvestigators from Pakistan are flying to London to examine allegations that some of its cricketers were involved in a betting scam.
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A baby died and three others became ill when a superbug resistant to common antibiotics hit a London hospital, it is revealed.
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The British Chambers of Commerce upgrades its forecast for the UK's short term economic prospects, but a slowdown is feared when cuts kick in.
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Hit US series Mad Men takes its third award Emmy for best drama series, while British stars face disappointment in Los Angeles.
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Hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of west London as the Notting Hill Carnival gets under way.
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PakistanPolice question a man over an alleged cricket betting scam during the current Pakistan-England Test, with claims Pakistan players were paid to bowl no-balls.
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Central banks may have to provide more economic support amid a fragile global recovery, the deputy governor of the Bank of England warns.
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Hearts take on Dundee United after Celtic beat Motherwell and St Mirren triumph against Hibernian earlier in the day.
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Joey Jordison, who plays with masked metal band Slipknot, tops a UK poll of the best drummers of the past 25 years.
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The UK's overall tax burden is likely to remain at its current level for "quite some time", says Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander.
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The coalition government confirms plans to scrap the NHS Direct helpline in England and replace it with an alternative service.
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PakistanEngland are scenting an innings victory at Lord's after bowling out Pakistan for 74 and then reducing them to 41-4 after enforcing the follow-on.
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Battle of Britain veterans take to the skies again in a special memorial flight as part of the 70th anniversary celebrations.
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PakistanPakistan are reduced to 41-4 in their second innings and trail England by 331 after being made to follow-on in the final Test at Lord's.
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Stephen Smith considers what made Fritz Lang's film, Metropolis, so hugely influential, as a newly restored version of the sci-fi epic is premiered in London.
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The UK economy grew by a revised 1.2% in the second quarter, its fastest pace in nine years, boosted by the construction sector.
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The number of people in England undergoing surgery on the NHS to help them lose weight has increased ten-fold in less than a decade, figures show.
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Defence manufacturers ask the prime minister to clear up confusion over how the replacement for Britain's nuclear deterrent will be funded.
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The draft sequences of the wheat genome released by UK scientists may prove to be a vital contribution to the efforts of securing global food supply.
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Fewer people came to the country last year but even fewer left, leading to a small overall increase, official figures show.
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Uefa president Michel Platini warns the Football Association that delaying naming a new chairman could damage England's 2018 World Cup bid.
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Fees paid to fundraising companies by UK charities for recruiting new donors often effectively wipe out the amount a person gives, a Newsnight investigation finds.
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Fugitive Polly Peck tycoon Asil Nadir returns to the UK, after evading trial since 1993.
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YemenBritish military personnel are now stationed in militant hotspots Yemen and Pakistan, official figures show.
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More tributes are paid to Gareth Williams, the MI6 worker whose body was discovered in a holdall in his London flat.
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PakistanThe start of the final Test between England and Pakistan is delayed because of poor weather.
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Further tests are to be carried out on the body of an MI6 worker which was found in a holdall in the bath at his central London flat.
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There were almost half a million new cases of sexually transmitted infections in 2009, with young people most likely to be affected, figures show
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Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe is to have an operation on a groin injury next week that will keep him out of England's Euro 2012 qualifiers in September.
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NigerNiger has been hit by a double disaster as recent floods compound an existing food crisis, a UK aid agency warned.
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The police, the Catholic Church and the government conspired to cover up a priest's suspected role in one of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland Troubles, an investigation has found.
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Teenagers score another record year for GCSEs with almost seven out of 10 entries being awarded a C grade or above.
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PakistanPakistan drop former captain Shoaib Malik for September's Twenty20 and one-day internationals against England.
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BermudaBritish driver Lewis Hamilton is fined A$500 (£288) for performing car stunts for fans outside Melbourne's motor racing circuit.
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Northern Ireland's Police Ombudsman is due to publish his report into the alleged involvement of a priest in an IRA bombing in 1972.
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NigerNiger is being hit by a "second emergency" as recent floods compound an existing food crisis, UK aid agency Oxfam warns.
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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg tells Fifa inspectors that England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup is "unbeatable".
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AfghanistanBritish troops give their views on the defence secretary's call for Medal of Honor to be banned.
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PakistanThe generosity of the British public in helping Pakistan's flood victims is "shaming politicians around the world", the head of the Disasters Emergency Committee says.
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A man who killed his 100-year-old mother by stabbing her in the neck at the home they shared in east London pleads guilty to manslaughter.
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More than half the average monthly rainfall fell in an hour in parts of southern England after the Met Office issued a series of severe weather warnings.
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Trials of a three-digit telephone number for those needing non-emergency medical care in England are launched in the North East.
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AfghanistanA UK soldier shot dead in Afghanistan while guarding a meeting between local elders and coalition troops is named as L/Cpl Jordan Dean Bancroft.
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Rangers beat Hibs in the early kick-off, while Celtic play St Mirren, Dundee United take on Inverness CT and Kilmarnock welcome Motherwell.
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Australia, PakistanEngland must improve their bowling to stand a realistic chance of beating Australia in the Ashes this winter, says Pakistan captain Salman Butt.
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United StatesBritish chef and TV personality Jamie Oliver wins an Emmy for his US series Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, which tackles childhood obesity.
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PakistanEngland captain Andrew Strauss demands a significant batting improvement following a four-wicket defeat by Pakistan in the third Test at The Oval.
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A London woman who fell from a balcony on her honeymoon, fracturing her spine, is to be flown home on Sunday.
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BelgiumThe lead singer of the north London-based pop band Ou Est Le Swimming Pool dies during a music festival in Belgium, the Foreign Office confirms.
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Pakistan hold on to beat England by four wickets in the third Test at The Oval and keep the series alive.
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AfghanistanA UK soldier is shot dead in southern Afghanistan while protecting a meeting between local elders and Afghan troops.
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United StatesThe Obama administration calls for Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi, who was convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, to be returned to prison in Scotland.
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Novelist AS Byatt and critic John Carey are announced as the winners of Britain's oldest literary awards.
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PakistanThe British government has announced it will double the amount of aid it is giving to flood-hit Pakistan to £60m.
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The compensation scheme for people affected by the proposed High Speed Rail link between London and Birmingham is launched.
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The Battle of Britain is being commemorated by a reading of one of Churchill's most famous speeches and a fly-past at Whitehall.
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