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Australia bowlers 'best in world'

47 min 55 sec ago
Australia coach Mickey Arthur thinks their best bowling attack in the world will put England under pressure in the Ashes.
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Tough start can help boss - Ferdinand

49 min 6 sec ago
Rio Ferdinand believes Manchester United's tough start to their Premier League campaign could help new boss David Moyes.
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Afghans reject Taliban talks moves

51 min 17 sec ago
A row over the status of the Taliban's office in Qatar persists as the militant group continues to display its flag despite Afghan protests.
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Osborne considers Ulster Bank move

51 min 31 sec ago
Chancellor George Osborne raises the possibility of splitting the Ulster Bank into 'good and bad banks'
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Gunman guilty of murdering rival

52 min 41 sec ago
A 21-year-old man is convicted of murdering a rival who he shot in the head when he fired a gun four times into a car outside a Nottingham pub.
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Nine hurt in crash near school

58 min 13 sec ago
Nine people are taken to hospital after a car hits parents and children as they used a school pelican crossing in a south Wales village.
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Anti-badger cull tweets monitored

1 hour 9 min ago
Whitehall chiefs use sophisticated software to monitor social media in an attempt to head-off protests against controversial policies such as the badger cull, it emerges.
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Stock markets fall on Fed comments

1 hour 9 min ago
Global stock markets fall sharply after the US central bank signals it could begin to scale back its economic stimulus programme later this year.
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Daily Mail in payout to psychic

1 hour 13 min ago
Psychic Sally Morgan says she has accepted an apology and £125,000 in damages from the Daily Mail after it suggested she "perpetrated a scam".
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CQC 'may reveal NHS cover-up names'

1 hour 13 min ago
England's NHS regulator is to review a decision not to name those behind a possible "cover-up" after a series of baby deaths at a Cumbria hospital.
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Crash boy wakes from two-week coma

1 hour 17 min ago
A boy who sustained serious head injuries when he was knocked down by a van in East Lothian wakes from his coma.
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Obama 'called Osborne Jeffrey'

1 hour 18 min ago
US President Barack Obama confused Chancellor George Osborne's name with that of a popular US singer during the G8 summit.
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FIA: Mercedes did not get permission

1 hour 22 min ago
Mercedes did not get permission to take part in the test in which they are accused of breaking F1's rules, says the FIA.
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Tony Soprano - Gandolfini's defining role

1 hour 23 min ago
James Gandolfini made Tony Soprano his own
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Iain Banks' final novel published

1 hour 25 min ago
The final novel written by Iain Banks - The Quarry - is released 11 days after his death.
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Kenyatta trial moved to November

1 hour 35 min ago
The International Criminal Court (ICC) pushes back the trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to 12 November.
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Railway staff launch 24-hour strike

1 hour 36 min ago
Northern Ireland railway staff launch 24-hour strike on Monday
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UK banks told to plug £27bn hole

1 hour 37 min ago
The Prudential Regulation Authority says the UK's top banks and building societies need to fill a £27.1bn hole in their balance sheets.
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'Carnage' warning over council cuts

1 hour 37 min ago
Welsh councils are warned they will have to slash services or raise council tax above 5% if they face budget cuts like their English counterparts.
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Hanged body shock for NZ burglar

1 hour 41 min ago
A terrified burglar hands himself to police in New Zealand after breaking into a house and stumbling across a body hanging in the dark.
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