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Campaigners hope the rejection of plans for hundreds of new homes on the site of a reservoir in Cardiff will bring to an end an 11-year battle.

Election watchdog Golos becomes the first non-governmental organisation (NGO) to be fined in Russia under a controversial new law.

Thousands of children and adults attending the Urdd Eisteddfod in Pembrokeshire are urged to make sure they have had measles vaccinations as cases in the Swansea epidemic rise to 942.

MPs approve the Growth and Infrastructure Bill, but Labour deem parts of the bill "ridiculous".

This final note, in which we learn that Washington gets hit with annoying banking fees just like the rest of us.

The Washington Post reported that the federal government has 13,712 bank accounts with zero balances. When that happens -- as we all know from possibly personal experience -- you start paying service charges.

In this case, $890,000 worth of service charges this year.

Sequester that, right?

A man is charged with murder and four counts of attempted murder after a house fire in Birmingham.

The voice of Alexander Graham Bell has been identified and heard for the first time in a recording from 1885.

The Nationalist MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Brian Adam, has died at the age of 64 after a battle with cancer.

The number of violent and sex crimes recorded by police in England and Wales is falling but pickpocketing is on the rise, figures suggest.

The rises and falls of UK economy

Treating 17-year-olds in custody as adults is incompatible with human rights law, the High Court rules, following a teenager's legal challenge.

Ed Miliband calls Len McCluskey, the leader of Labour's biggest donor union, "reprehensible" for seeking to "divide" the party.

Also: Sexism on Wikipedia?; a defense of Oprah's Book Club; and Gary Shteyngart is coming out with a memoir next year.

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Tyre supplier Pirelli resists pressure from Red Bull to make its tyres more durable for the rest of the season.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says Lib Dems will not agree to any new law allowing all Britons' online activity to be recorded.

The FBI wants to speak with "Misha," a man who relatives of the suspects say may have introduced Tamerlan Tsarnaev to radical Islam. Meanwhile, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly stopped giving information to investigators after being read his Miranda rights.

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An NHS telephone advice line is withdrawn in Worcestershire after concerns over patient safety.

United Continental, JetBlue, Southwest, and Alaska Airlines are all reporting earnings today. Overall, the industry says profit margins are fragile, and they’re blaming the FAA for the latest threat.

Fewer air traffic controllers are clocked-in nationwide, because of automatic federal spending cuts. That means flight delays and a whole lot of angry customers. So far the delays are not that bad; it’s what’s coming in the next few months that airlines are worried about.

“Especially as we go into the summer peak season, this could most definitely have a negative impact on their bottom line,” says Darin Lee, an airline industry consultant at Compass Lexicon.

Lee says these days airlines are flying fewer planes, so more flights are full.

“If they’re forced to reduce number of flights out of D.C., O’Hare, LaGuardia because of controller cuts, then that does represent lost revenues for those airlines,” he explains.

The airlines say they’re trying to minimize frustration for passengers, but the industry trade group Airlines for America (A4A) says the delays are unpredictable, and unaffordable.

“This is an industry that last year, in a profitable year, our profit amounted to $0.21 a passenger, so you can see that that’s very narrow margins,” says A4A spokeswoman Jean Medina.

Airlines are asking employees and passengers to be patient with the delays, and take their complaints to Congress.

MPs put questions to Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin and his team.

Three British men, including a former police community support officer and a recent convert to Islam, are jailed for preparing acts of terrorism.