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Britain mired in longest, deepest postwar recession - 4 hours ago
Ratings agency Fitch says record budget deficit must be tackled to avoid UK debt downgradeGordon...
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Ticketmaster and Live Nation merger given go-ahead by UK authorities - 7 hours ago
• UK green light for world's biggest concert promoter and ticket seller• Deal faces US opposition...
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Trader earns $2.5bn in bet on US banks - 1 hour ago
Appaloosa Management hedge fund manager David Tepper staked huge amounts on US banks surviving...
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BAA wins appeal over airport sell-off - 21 hours ago
• Ruling plunges enforced break-up into chaos• Airlines urge watchdog not to back off on plansBAA...
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Eurostar restarts trains to clear backlog - 2 hours ago
The Cross-channel rail operator begins to shift up to 40,000 stranded passengers by resuming a...
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Moody’s rating decision offers respite to Greece - 5 hours ago
Moody’s Investors Services downgrade Greece’s state bond ratings less than expected to A2 from A1,...
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Beijing rejects UK Copenhagen criticism - 10 hours ago
China hits back at accusations from the British government that it blocked the approval of a...
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Collapsed Lehman pays out big bonuses - 19 hours ago
Lehman Europe is the biggest and most complex part of the dead bank outside its US headquarters...
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Stocks assault year highs - 1 hour ago
Global markets overview: Stocks gird themselves for an attack on 2009 highs on Tuesday as action in...
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Stem cell treatment for blindness - 1 hour ago
A stem cell treatment developed in Newcastle has restored good vision to eight people who had lost...
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Intesa sells securities arm to State Street - 6 hours ago
The Italian bank has stepped up its disposal programme, selling its securities division to the...
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Bank charges challenge is dropped - 2 hours ago
The Office of Fair Trading decides to drop its investigation into the fairness of bank overdraft...
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First-class stamp to rise to 41p - 3 hours ago
The price of first and second class stamps will rise by 2p to 41p and 32p in April, Royal Mail...
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UK economy remains in recession - 1 hour ago
The UK economy shrank by 0.2% between July and September, revised figures show, indicating it is...
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Kroenke called on to reveal plans - 2 hours ago
A spokesman for Alisher Usmanov calls on fellow Arsenal shareholder Stan Kroenke to reveal his...
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18th-century pornography: Vintage voyeurism - 5 days ago
A stash of obscene etchings is discovered inside the Ministry of JusticeWHEN the government decided...
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HIV microbicides: Dashed hopes - 5 days ago
A microbicide which, it was believed, might protect from HIV, does notIN THE frantic search for ways...
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Marine archaeology: Davy Jones's lock-up - 5 days ago
Underwater robots can help study the world’s shipwrecks, a trove of information about the past, more...
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Reproductive biology: Girls on top - 5 days ago
Stressed mothers spontaneously abort male fetusesIT HAS been known for a while that stressful...
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US stays out of recession despite output fall - 4 hours ago
The US economy grew at a slightly slower pace than previously thought in the third quarter, it...
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UK clears Ticketmaster's Live Nation merger - 7 hours ago
The Competition Commission today cleared the merger of Ticketmaster Entertainment, Britain's biggest...
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UK stays in recession as output shrinks by 0.2% - 8 hours ago
Britain today cemented its position as the only G20 country still in recession as new figures...
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Hedge fund manager in line for $2.5bn payday$ - 9 hours ago
David Tepper, who runs the US hedge fund Appaloosa Management, is in line for a profit share of...
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