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Online trading platform Intrade ceases all trading activity pending an investigation that may include "financial irregularities".

Global leaders of the Roman Catholic Church are meeting in the Vatican for their final group discussions ahead of the election of a new pope.

History suggests Tiger Woods's win in Miami could be the start of a successful season, says golf correspondent Iain Carter

Whatever the science, consumers are jumpy about genetically modified foods. At least they are in Europe. For years, restaurants and grocery stores have trumpeted their products are GMO free.

"Even McDonalds in Italy and in Great Britain advertises that its products don’t contain any GMOs. So it depresses use of genetically modified foods," says New York University food studies professor Marion Nestle.

In the U.S., Whole Foods now plans to label products with the GMOs inside. But will our market follow Europe’s lead and shun modified food? American farms grow the most genetically modified foods in the world, and our diet is already full of high-tech grains.

The real test may be price, says Harry Balzer of the NPD Group.

"Nothing will change your behavior faster -- short of a food safety issue -- than prices. And we will never let food prices rise faster than our incomes," Balzer says.

A study from Iowa State suggests non-genetically modified foods could end up costing 6 to 10 percent more around the world.

A case against the lead singer of rock band Lostprophets over child sexual offence charges, including conspiracy to rape a baby, is adjourned.

Police say the bomb attack on officers in north Belfast was a "sophisticated device with the intent to kill."

Experts worry that while the North has often made threats, now it's rhetoric is ratcheting up. That may make the new young leader, Kim Jong Un, feel as if he has to follow through on the threats in some way.

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The bloated carcasses were first noticed on Tuesday. Authorities says they appear to have died as a result of a swine virus that cannot be transmitted to humans.

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Residents on the Channel Islands are bracing themselves for high winds and freezing temperatures as the wintry weather makes a return.

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The prime minister pledges to make apprenticeships the "new norm" for school leavers who decide not to go to university.

Three types of critically endangered but commercially valuable shark have been given added protection at the Cites meeting in Bangkok.

Also: the best books coming out this week; Mindy Kaling is writing another memoir; and Francine Prose explores dreams in literature.

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A video posted online appears to show the bodies of some of the foreign hostages seized by Nigerian Islamist militant group Ansaru last month.

A horrific series of disasters devastated Japan two years ago today. First an earthquake, then a tsunami and then a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Today's anniversary is being marked with protests against nuclear power in Japan. But can the country sustain a non-nuclear energy policy?

The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo joins Marketplace Morning Report host Jeremy Hobson to discuss the legacy of Fukushima and the clean up efforts still underway.

The government's proposed reforms of the banking sector still do not go far enough, according to a banking commission set up in the wake of the Libor scandal.

The founder of a "revenge porn" website has been ordered to pay $250,000 (£170,000) in damages for defamation.

Shane Watson is one of four players dropped by Australia for breach of discipline on their tour of India.

A militant umbrella group that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq says it was behind the killing of 48 Syrian soldiers and nine Iraqi guards in Iraq last week.