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Nearly 3,000 jobs are safeguarded at three poultry and red meat processing plants around Wales after a buy-out by a meat supplier.

CCTV pictures of the moments when two soldiers were shot dead at Massereene Barracks in Antrim are shown at the start of a murder trial.

Denmark suspend Nicklas Bendtner for six months after the striker is arrested for drink driving in Copenhagen.

The Plosky Tolbachik volcano in East Russia, is one of 29 on the Kamchatka peninsular, and has been erupting since last November.

HSBC reveals it paid $4.2bn to cover money laundering fines and the cost of product mis-selling in 2012, as the chief executive's pay rose to $7m.

Two leading private schools have been selected as teaching schools to train teachers for the state sector in England.

The number of loans being offered by banks has continued to fall, prompting the business secretary to say its Funding for Lending scheme may need to be improved.

The rodents have been a big problem in Iran's capital for years. Efforts to poison them may have run their course. So, according to local reports, sniper teams have been deployed. Some of their targets are quite large — weighing about 11 pounds.

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Long queues are reported nationwide as Kenyans vote in an election that observers describe as the most important in the country's history

Lawmakers narrowly vote to charge outgoing Czech President Vaclav Klaus with treason over a controversial New Year amnesty.

A man dressed as Batman surprises police in Bradford by handing over a wanted man in the early hours of the morning.

The UK is to increase the amount of "non-lethal" assistance it is giving to opposition forces in Syria, with details to be announced in the coming days.

The Queen returns to Buckingham Palace after being assessed in hospital for symptoms of gastroenteritis, but will not carry out any engagements this week.

A Florida man whose bedroom was engulfed by a sinkhole as he slept is presumed dead. But how do these sinkholes form?

Czech President Vaclav Klaus freed thousands of prisoners. But what really angered his opposition was when he halted the prosecution of some fraud cases.

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Telecommuting is quickly becoming a new normal for the workplace. So why has tech giant, Yahoo, decided to nix it? Host Michel Martin explores whether staying in the office will help the faltering company stay in the game.

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Lawmakers failed to avert across-the-board spending cuts to the federal government, and they officially kicked in last week. Host Michel Martin speaks with NPR senior business editor Marilyn Geewax, and The Wall Street Journal's Sudeep Reddy about what it all really means.

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The wealth gap between white and black families is growing — and that's especially apparent in the housing market. Host Michel Martin talks to Washington Post correspondent Michael Fletcher about the financial disparities facing black families.

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US President Barack Obama nominates new heads for the energy department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the White House budget office.

Shares in department store Debenhams fall 14% after the firm said bad weather in January would dent its profits for the first half of 2013.