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The government of President Nicolas Maduro announced this week that it would import 50 million rolls of toilet paper to meet the growing demand. The oil-rich country already suffers from a shortage of medicine, milk and sugar.

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The government of President Nicolas Maduro announced this week that it would import 50 million rolls of toilet paper to meet the growing demand. The oil-rich country already suffers from a shortage of medicine, milk and sugar.

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What next for Bradley Wiggins after quitting Giro d'Italia

How did the government calculate the benefits of HS2?

Toulon's Jonny Wilkinson is among five nominees for European Player of the Year following his impressive Heineken Cup displays.

A smoking action group calls for more legislation to cut the number of adult smokers as figures reveal a fall of just 1% in six years.

Revelations that Costa Rica's president used a jet belonging to a Colombian with alleged links to drug trafficking have led to three resignations.

Police believe the mother of a 20-month-old girl whose body was found in a house in Oxfordshire has fled to Kenya.

The driver of a speedboat that crashed killing a father and daughter was not wearing the safety cord that could have stopped the engine, investigators say.

Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, says the gun attack on police officers in west Belfast would have created only "huge misery and heartbreak" had they been killed or injured.

"I think we overreached in '98 — how's that for a quote you can use?" the former House speaker says of the Clinton impeachment. Now he tells fellow Republicans that they need to be "calm and factual" as they pursue answers from the Obama administration about the IRS and other scandals.

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Also: AARP and The Nation join a growing list of ebook publishers; Hilary Mantel on Jane Austen; Anne Applebaum on Sheryl Sandberg.

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An engineer from Greater Manchester was unlawfully killed by his kidnappers in Nigeria minutes after a UK-led rescue operation stormed in, an inquest finds.

Maria Sharapova's preparations for the French Open suffer a setback after she withdraws from the Italian Open because of illness.

As a survey of teachers finds concerns over a drop in school sport, BBC Sport's Dan Roan says the Olympic legacy cannot be taken for granted

A probe by the European Commission into possible manipulation of oil prices has just gotten bigger. Neste Oil Oyj, Finland's only refiner, has also been asked to help with the investigation. Earlier this week, EU officials raided the offices of three of Europe's biggest oil companies -- BP, Shell and Statoil -- and the oil price reporting company Platts, part of McGraw Hill Financial. So far, only Statoil has responded to the allegations, saying it has done nothing illegal.

From London, Marketplace's Stephen Beard has the latest on the story.

Egyptian police sealed off the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip in protest at the abduction of seven security personnel in Sinai.

Ferrari have ridiculed critics of the tyres in Formula 1 in what amounts to a veiled attack on champions Red Bull.

People under 40 are warned to watch their weight as researchers find a sharp rise in the number with type 2 diabetes.

Four million public sector employees will see a dramatic reduction in the overall value of their pension schemes, a new report claims.