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Mo Farah claims that winning the London Marathon will be his main aim for 2014, rather than beating the British record.

A gunman has killed six people - including a 14-year-old girl - in the western Russian city of Belgorod, local officials say.

Unless space debris is actively tackled, some satellite orbits will become extremely hazardous over the next 200 years, a new study suggests.

More than 180 people reportedly have died following Saturday's strong temblor in Sichuan province. Aftershocks and landslides are making difficult to get to the villages and other places that were hit hard.

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Lewis Hamilton says his Mercedes team are just about hanging on to Formula 1's front-runners but is hopeful they can compete soon.

News Corp reaches a $139m (£91m) settlement with shareholders over complaints filed in relation to the UK phone-hacking scandal.

BBC flagship arts programme The Review Show loses 80% of its audience following its move from BBC Two to BBC Four.

The caretaker government in Pakistan says it will not put former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on trial for high treason.

London Marathon race director Hugh Brasher says changes are being considered after a crash between a runner and a wheelchair athlete.

A teacher who filmed girls and women, using a hidden camera in his bathroom, is jailed for three years and two months.

The housing sector has been one of the economy's bright spots, and economists expect that to continue. But they also say that until new-home construction catches up, the supply of homes for sale will remain tight.

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Steve Inskeep talks with Boston Globe columnist Juliette Kayyem about city officials' decision to lock down Boston on Friday as law enforcement searched for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Kayyem is a former top homeland security official.

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A mother and her two children died from an apparent chemical poisoning, an inquest hears.

In July of 2013, the U.S. gross domestic product will officially grow three percent, due to a few additions to the statistics that economists have been using to calculate GDP for years.

From now on, government statisticians will take into account money earned from creative works including movies, television shows, books, theater and music. Money spent on research and development, which has, until now, been considered a cost of doing business will also be included.

Lewis Alexander, chief U.S. economist for Nomura, says the new additions are meant to reflect a shift in what’s important in a twenty-first century economy.

“You can think of it as the growing importance of the IT industry, but obviously the entertainment industry as well,” Alexander said.

Still, economists say that while the new additions will boost GDP, they will be too small to fundamentally change our view of how the economy is doing.

Plans to raise the status of vocational courses in sixth forms and colleges in England have been announced with a "technical baccalaureate".

Boeing has admitted that it may never know what caused the battery malfunctions that resulted in all its 787 Dreamliner aircraft being grounded.

Caterpillar reported disappointing earnings this morning. The heavy-equipment maker announced its profits are down 45 percent and also cut its forecast for the rest of the year.

The U.S. economy will grow by 3 percent this summer, due to a change in the data used to calculate GDP.

Chinese manufacturers have moved to Italy and set up garment factories. They excel at making garments fast and cheaply, but some Italian manufacturers are unhappy with their presence.

The North Korean spy who blew up a plane killing 115 people

A £24m investment at Ford's Bridgend plant will secure jobs with the production of a new greener engine.

Google has been fined by German data regulators after it admitted illegally recording information from unsecured wi-fi networks.