LONDON (Reuters) - Footballer Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen appealed to the media for privacy on Friday and said a week of speculation about their marriage had been “extremely painful.”
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has received an ancient Persian treasure from the British Museum after a months-long dispute over its loan to the Islamic Republic, state media reported on Friday.
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Britain loans artefact to Iran after dispute
LONDON (Reuters) - The government said on Friday it planned legislation this year to privatise state-owned postal delivery company Royal Mail, despite opposition from trades unions.
LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick will be out for three weeks with an Achilles problem but defender Rio Ferdinand is fit again, manager Alex Ferguson said on Friday.
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United lose Carrick for three weeks, Rio returns
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should cut its target for biofuels use by 2020 so that tropical forests are not cut down to make way for biofuel crops, government climate advisors said on Friday.
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Government told to cut 2020 biofuels target
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - For most clubs an end-of-season DVD charting the highs and lows would be enough. Manchester City are not most clubs, though, and have splashed out on the full cinema release with gala premiere.
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Year of drama culminates in Manchester City: The Movie
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s healthcare cost watchdog said it was unable to recommend use of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s schizophrenia drug Abilify in children aged 15 to 17 and has asked for more information on its effectiveness.
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NICE wants more data on BMS schizophrenia drug
LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor George Osborne plans an additional 4 billion pounds of welfare cuts on top of an 11 billion pound reduction to the annual bill already planned, the BBC reported on Thursday.
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Osborne plans extra £4 billion of benefit cuts - report
LONDON (Reuters) - Junior lenders to KCA Deutag, the drilling contractor owned by oil services company Abbot Group, are gearing up for debt negotiations that threaten to wipe out their investments, sources close to the situation said.
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KCA Deutag lenders gear up for debt talks - sources
LONDON (Reuters) - MPs asked parliament’s standards watchdog Thursday to begin a new investigation into the phone hacking allegations surrounding the News of the World and its former editor Andy Coulson, now David Cameron’s media chief.
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Sleaze watchdog to probe tabloid hacking row
LONDON (Reuters) - The skeleton of a huge whale, thought to have been butchered for its meat, bone and oils 300 years ago, has been discovered by archaeologists on the banks of London’s River Thames.
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Skeleton of 18th century whale found in London
KARACHI (Reuters) - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asked Scotland Yard and the International Cricket Council to allow suspended trio Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir to return home from the tour of England.
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Pakistan want suspended trio to be allowed home
LONDON (Reuters) - MPs will next week grill outgoing BP Plc Chief Executive Tony Hayward, as part of an investigation into risks around deepwater drilling in the North Sea.
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MPs to grill BP CEO Hayward
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England kept interest rates at 0.5 percent for the 18th month in a row and announced no new quantitative easing purchases, in a widely expected decision on Thursday.
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Bankholds rates at 0.5 percent and makes no change to QE
LONDON (Reuters) - Rapper Tinie Tempah is leading the way among contenders for this year’s MOBO awards with four nominations including Best Newcomer and Best UK Act.
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Rapper Tempah leads MOBO award contenders
LONDON (Reuters) - British Muslim activists plan to burn the U.S. flag outside the U.S.
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron thanked French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday for helping him reach his father’s hospital bedside before he died.
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Cameron pays tribute to father, thanks Sarkozy
LONDON (Reuters) - The goods trade deficit with the rest of the world unexpectedly widened to a record high in July after imports of chemicals and oil surged and exports fell, data showed on Thursday.
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July goods trade gap hits all-time high as imports surge
LONDON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs has been fined 20 million pounds by the UK’s financial regulator for failing to disclose it was under fraud investigation by its U.S. counterpart, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
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Goldman Sachs fined £20 million in UK - report
LONDON (Reuters) - Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said on Thursday that economic progress would not be smooth but warned against talking down the economy.
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Deputy PM Clegg sees uneven economic progress
LONDON (Reuters) - Fabio Capello will quit as England manager after the 2012 European Championship, media reported on Wednesday.
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Capello to quit as England coach after Euro 2012 - report
LONDON (Reuters) - British defence firms have been asked by the government to consider scrapping the UK’s aircraft carrier programme and are concerned about the new National Security Council’s role in decisions on defence spending cuts.
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Government weighs scrapping carrier programme
LONDON (Reuters) - The administrator of Connaught’s main social housing unit is seeking to sell its contracts and warned of possible redundancies among the 10,000-strong workforce.
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KPMG seeks to sell stricken Connaught’s contracts
LONDON (Reuters) - The fate of British social housing services firm Connaught is the latest reminder firms dependent on government contracts must be resilient and adaptable to survive austerity.
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Connaught fate: a sign of austerity woes to come?
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria has been cleared by Essex police of betting during an English county match last season, his lawyer said.
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Essex police clear Kaneria over betting allegations
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is to review its extradition laws after widespread concern existing treaty arrangements with the United States are biased against the UK.
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Britain to review extradition laws
LONDON (Reuters) - Former premier Tony Blair has postponed a party at the Tate Modern art gallery celebrating the launch of his autobiography because of threats from protesters, his office said on Wednesday.
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Blair postpones book party at Tate Modern
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron will fly to France on Wednesday to be with his father who has fallen seriously ill while on holiday, Cameron’s office said.
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Cameron flies to France to see ailing father
LONDON (Reuters) - Smart meters to boost energy efficiency in homes do not automatically achieve a significant reduction in energy demand, research showed Wednesday.
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Smart meters alone may not save much energy - study
BASEL (Reuters) - Wayne Rooney scored his first international goal for almost one year to set England on the way to a 3-1 win away to Switzerland in their Euro 2012 qualifier on Tuesday.
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Rooney on target to set up England’s Swiss stroll
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Nations should help investigate allegations that opposition figures in Bahrain have been tortured in prison in the run-up to next month’s elections, a British lawmaker said on Tuesday.
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U.N. must probe Bahrain torture allegations - UK lawmaker
LONDON (Reuters) - A violin made from a tree in the garden of Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s childhood home has been handed over to the University of Edinburgh instrument collection and will be used for special charity concerts throughout Scotland.
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"Sherlock Holmes violin" goes on show
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain promoted one of its top financial crimebusters on Tuesday to help keep experienced staff on board at a watchdog set to be abolished in two years’ time.
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Government promotes financial crimebuster as shake-up looms
LONDON (Reuters) - Two-time Man Booker winner Australian author Peter Carey, Emma Donoghue and Andrea Levy go head to head in a final field of six authors vying for one of the world’s most influential literary prizes.
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Two-time Booker winner Carey tops 2010 shortlist
LONDON (Reuters) - Change swept through the top banks on Tuesday as Barclays said its investment banking supremo Bob Diamond will take over as group chief executive next year and HSBC was expected to announce later that its chairman is going into government.
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All change at banks, Diamond gets top Barclays job
LONDON (Reuters) - Workers on London’s underground rail network walked out Monday in a staggered 24-hour strike over plans to save money by reducing staffing at stations and closing ticket offices.
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London faces transport chaos in jobs strike
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s tabloid Sun newspaper launched its own celebrity perfume on Monday to provide readers with the scent of showbiz.
LONDON (Reuters) - A floating duck house, which came to symbolise a scandal which erupted last year over British politicians’ expenses, has been sold and the money given to a cancer charity, the organisation said on Monday.
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Duck house, symbol of MPs’ expense scandal, sold
LONDON (Reuters) - Four priceless tapestries designed by the Renaissance master Raphael have gone on display with their original drawings for the first time at an exhibition in London to coincide with Pope Benedict’s visit to Britain.
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Raphael tapestries go on show in Britain
LONDON (Reuters) - A giant bale of hay has killed a founding member of the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) band after it tumbled down a hill and crashed into his van.
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Giant hay bale kills former ELO cellist
LONDON (Reuters) - Maintenance workers on London’s underground rail network went out on strike on Monday at the start of a wave of industrial action which unions say will cripple the system, bringing misery to commuters.
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Tube commuters braced for travel chaos
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron’s communications chief denied on Monday that he encouraged reporters to illegally hack into phone messages in his previous role as a tabloid newspaper editor.
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Coulson "happy to speak to police"
LONDON (Reuters) - Immigration Minister Damian Green is calling for tougher rules for non-EU students seeking to enrol on courses in Britain, after research found a fifth were still in the country five years after being granted visas.
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Non-EU student visa system faces shake-up
LONDON (Reuters) - Police said on Sunday they had sought more information about claims that reporters at the News of the World newspaper illegally hacked into voicemail accounts to eavesdrop on people’s phone messages.
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Police seek information on newspaper eavesdropping
LONDON (Reuters) - Public sector job opportunities in IT have fallen markedly since the start of the year, a survey showed Monday, in a sign that the government’s austerity drive is already affecting the labour market.
LONDON (Reuters) - As commuters prepared for travel chaos on Monday at the start of a series of strikes on the London Underground, management and unions traded blows over new safety claims.
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London Tube commuters braced for travel chaos
CARDIFF (Reuters) - Pakistan test opener Yasir Hameed said Sunday he had been duped into making statements reported in the British newspaper The News of the World alleging widespread match-fixing by his team mates.
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Hameed says he was duped by newspaper
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch painter Corneille, co-founder of the avant-garde Cobra movement, died on Sunday at the age of 88, the Dutch Cobra museum said on Sunday.
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Dutch painter and Cobra co-founder Corneille dies
LONDON (Reuters) - Entrepreneur Richard Caring is considering a counter-bid for British cafe and restaurant chain Carluccio’s, British newspaper the Mail on Sunday reported.
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Caring mulls counter-bid for Carluccio’s - report
LONDON (Reuters) - Tim Waterstone, the founder of the UK book retailer that bears his name, is considering a 100 million pound-plus bid to buy the chain from parent company HMV, the Observer newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Waterstone founder may take chain back - report
CARDIFF (Reuters) - The first Twenty20 international between England and Pakistan was set to go ahead as planned on Sunday despite the latest allegations in the fixing controversy, Pakistan manager Yawar Saeed said.
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England v Pakistan series to go ahead - team manager
CARDIFF (Reuters) - England play their first Twenty20 international on Sunday since claiming the World Cup in Barbados this year against a backdrop of suspicion and innuendo rather than celebration.
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England-Pakistan series opens with air of suspicion
LONDON (Reuters) - Two people died after a mid-air collision by two light planes during an air race over the Isle of Wight, police said on Saturday.
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Two die in mid-air light aircraft collision
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Three people were arrested after protesters threw eggs and shoes at former British Prime Minister Tony Blair when he arrived to sign copies of his memoir at a bookshop in Dublin on Saturday, national broadcaster RTE said.
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Blair pelted with eggs at Dublin book signing
LONDON (Reuters) - Land Securities is set to bring in Songbird’s Canary Wharf Group (CWG) as a partner to build a new skyscraper in London’s City financial district, sources close to the deal said on Friday.
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LandSecs to partner with CWG on London office - sources
LONDON (Reuters) - British customers of France Telecom’s Orange and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile will be able to roam across each other’s UK networks from October, the new joint venture of the two companies said.
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Orange, T-Mobile UK roaming to start in October
LONDON (Reuters) - A former Labour minister plans legal action after accusing the Metropolitan Police of failing to fully investigate claims of widespread phone hacking by reporters with the News of the World newspaper.
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Former minister seeks probe into NoW hacking
LONDON (Reuters) - Liberal Democrat stalwart and former Rochdale MP Sir Cyril Smith has died aged 82, his party said on Friday.
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Larger than life Liberal Cyril Smith dies
LONDON (Reuters) - Fugitive businessman Asil Nadir appeared in court on Friday for the first time since returning to London last month, 17 years after he fled while awaiting trial on fraud and theft charges related to one of Britain’s biggest corporate failures.
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Tycoon appears in court 17 years after fleeing Britain
LONDON (Reuters) - The marriage of “X Factor” judge and pop singer Cheryl Cole and her England soccer player husband Ashley ended in divorce after four years on Friday.
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Cheryl and Ashley Cole in "quickie" divorce
LONDON (Reuters) - Alcohol consumption in Britain saw its sharpest decline in more than 60 years in 2009 in contrast to the perception that the country has a growing drink problem, the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) said on Friday.
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Alcohol consumption suffers sharp slump
ROVERETO, Italy (Reuters) - A woman carrying pole vaults in a purpose-built bag struggles to make her way through a crowd of screaming children at an athletics meeting in northern Italy.
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Pistorius expects to comfortably make London Olympics
LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland announced another wave of job cuts on Thursday as the part-nationalised bank continues with its drive to trim costs and improve its profitability.
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Royal Bank of Scotland to cut 3,500 jobs in UK
LONDON (Reuters) - Scotland’s government announced on Thursday that its planned minimum price for alcohol would be set at 45 pence per unit, meaning a bottle of wine would cost at least 4.23 pounds and a bottle of whisky 12.60 pounds.
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Scotland announces minimum price for alcohol
LONDON (Reuters) - God did not create the universe and the “Big Bang” was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
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God did not create the universe, says Hawking
LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary William Hague has denied rumours he was gay and said one of his male aides had quit over untrue speculation they had been involved in a relationship.
LONDON (Reuters) - A doctor who cut a rugby player’s lip to disguise a fake injury during a European cup game and then lied about the incident has received a formal warning, Britain’s medical regulator said on Wednesday.
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Doctor in fake blood scandal given formal warning
LONDON (Reuters) - Former prime minister Tony Blair said on Wednesday he could have not have imagined what he called the “nightmare” that unfolded in Iraq but still did not regret joining the U.S.-led invasion.
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Blair says did not foresee Iraq "nightmare"
LONDON (Reuters) - British hedge fund company Man Group Plc named GLG head Emmanuel Roman as its chief operating officer on Wednesday, to help Man Group integrate its recent acquisition of the GLG business.
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GLG’s Roman named Man Group chief operating officer
LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in Spice Plc, Britain’s biggest installer of water meters, rose strongly on Wednesday in anticipation of a bidding war as the company revealed it was in talks with a second potential bidder.
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New bidder emerges for UK’s Spice
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish retail sales fell in July and jobless claims rose last month, adding to fears that a nascent recovery from the euro-zone’s deepest recession may have already hit a wall.
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Irish recovery stutters as retail falls, jobless rises
LONDON (Reuters) - Adam Sandler’s new comedy “Grown Ups” has knocked Sylvester Stallone’s latest mercenary action movie off the UK box office top spot after just one week, according to Screen International on Wednesday.
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Adam Sandler’s "Grown Ups" knocks Stallone off top spot
LONDON (Reuters) - Official statistics place too much weight on a standard European Union inflation measure at the expense of a national index more suited to wage negotiations, experts said in a letter published on Tuesday.
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Top statisticians criticise CPI inflation measure
CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg confirmed on Tuesday that Britain’s combat mission in Afghanistan would be over by 2015 and pledged to protect frontline troops from any sudden cuts in government spending.
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Clegg reaffirms 2015 pullout date for Afghan mission
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The Edinburgh Fringe Festival reported ticket sales of almost two million during the three-week run of the world’s biggest annual artistic gathering of seasoned performers and complete newcomers in the fields of comedy, dance, theatre and song.
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Edinburgh Fringe, Book festivals sign off for 2010
LONDON (Reuters) - The exceptionally dry early summer months in Britain have revealed the ghostly outlines of several hundred previously unknown ancient sites buried in fields across the English countryside.
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Parched English fields reveal ancient sites
LONDON (Reuters) - “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling has donated 10 million pounds ($15.5 million) to set up a new clinic to carry out research into multiple sclerosis (MS), the disease which killed her mother.
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J.K. Rowling gives millions for MS research
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly half of the UK public has little confidence in local authorities as they face massive budgetary cuts despite being sympathetic to their plight, a poll by Zurich Municipal showed on Monday.
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Half public not confident in budget-cutting council - poll
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan will not suspend any players being investigated for alleged corruption without proof of wrongdoing, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt says.
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Pakistan will not drop players without proof - PCB
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain and France are getting ready to unveil plans to share aircraft carriers amid pressure on the British military to cut costs, the Times reported on Tuesday.
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Britain, France to share aircraft carriers - paper
LONDON (Reuters) - The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) anti-corruption unit has been asked to submit a report within the next three days on an investigation into alleged corruption within the Pakistan team.
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Corruption report expected in two to three days
HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc delayed retrieval of the failed blowout preventer atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well this week because of bad weather, the top U.S. official overseeing the oil spill said on Monday.
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Bad weather delays retrieval of BP blowout preventer
LONDON (Reuters) - British house prices suffered their biggest fall since April 2009 this month, declining by 0.3 percent, property data company Hometrack said on Monday in its monthly survey of estate agents and surveyors.
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August house prices down by most since April 2009 - Hometrack
LONDON (Reuters) - Britons can expect no cut in the overall tax burden for an extended period as the coalition government takes tough steps to narrow a gaping budget deficit, a Treasury minister was quoted as saying on Sunday.
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Minister sees no early cut in tax burden
LONDON (Reuters) - England coach Fabio Capello said he regretted the way he announced the end of David Beckham’s international career but added he still had a good relationship with the former captain who would make a top manager one day.
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England coach regrets way he handled Beckham decision
LONDON (Reuters) - England manager Fabio Capello could be missing key players for the Euro 2012 qualifiers against Bulgaria and Switzerland after Frank Lampard was ruled out with a hernia and several other players injured Saturday.
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Lampard out of England squad, Zamora doubtful
LONDON (Reuters) - Frank Lampard will miss England’s Euro 2012 qualifiers against Bulgaria and Switzerland with a hernia problem that will need surgery next week, Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti said Saturday.
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Lampard out of England qualifiers
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Britain’s top annual comedy prize, the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award, went to England’s Russell Kane at an Edinburgh Fringe festival ceremony on Saturday for his show “Smokescreens and Castles.”
LONDON (Reuters) - The head of the BBC made an impassioned defence of the state broadcaster on Friday, following years of mounting criticism from rivals and politicians accusing it of being too large and too arrogant.
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BBC boss defends it from critics, rivals
LONDON (Reuters) - One in four women who works as a lap dancer in Britain has a university degree and the majority of those involved in the industry enjoy their work, earning up to 48,000 pounds a year, academic research has found.
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Study finds quarter of lap dancers have degrees
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Steelmaker Corus, owned by India’s Tata Steel, said it had reached an agreement with Thailand’s SSI over the potential $500 million sale of its mothballed Teesside plant.
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Corus and SSI agree scope of $500 million Teesside sale
LONDON (Reuters) - House prices in England and Wales rose 0.4 percent on the month and 6.7 percent on the year in July, figures from the Land Registry showed on Friday.
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House prices up 6.7 percent year on year in July
LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways apologised to passengers after an emergency message warning they were about to crash into the sea was played by mistake.
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"We’re about to crash," BA passengers told in error
LONDON (Reuters) - An intimate portrait of Queen Victoria with her hair down — belying her traditional frumpy image — and a painting she commissioned of an American lion tamer form part of an exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.
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Queen Victoria’s artistic tastes go on show
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain faces a new wave of attacks from poorly trained but highly motivated homegrown militants, as the al Qaeda threat shifts from big, sophisticated bomb plots to acts by individuals, a report said on Friday.
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UK faces new wave of homegrown attacks - report
LONDON (Reuters) - Robbie Williams and his old band Take That plan to tour together next summer after reconciling their differences, but the reunion is likely to be temporary, they said on Thursday.
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Robbie Williams and Take That plan reunion tour
LONDON (Reuters) - Net migration to Britain jumped 20 percent in 2009 but the increase was largely due to a fall in the number of UK citizens moving abroad, the Home Office said on Thursday.
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Net migration to Britain jumps 20 percent
Google said users of Gmail in the US will now be able to call telephones directly from their email, putting it in direct competition with web calling service Skype and more traditional operators such as T Mobile and AT&T. Related Stories Revealed: the YouTube rich list Cigarette firms ‘are using product placement on web’ The Business On… Patrick Kennedy, Chief executive, Paddy Power Apple ‘to launch new iPods nexy week’ I’m going on tour with take that, says Robbie Williams
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Google to allow phone calls from Gmail
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Ireland had a solid bank plan and was Europe’s leader in fiscal reform, warning not to take rating agency views such as S&P’s downgrade of Ireland this week too seriously.
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Canada finmin defends Irish policy after downgrade
LONDON (Reuters) - The deputy prime minister on Thursday rejected a report by an independent and influential think-tank that said the government’s fiscal new measures will hit the poor hardest.
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Clegg rejects budget criticism