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Jonathan Ross says the Bafta Games Awards are putting a positive spotlight on something which has suffered negativity and easy dismisiveness.

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson is too "distraught" to face the media after their Champions League exit against Real Madrid.

The Ford F-150 has been the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. for 31 years. Amid rumors of a new version of the Ford truck, GM is readying pickup launches of its own as signs of a housing industry comeback signal increased demand for the heavy-duty vehicles.

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Syrian warplanes have bombed the northern city of Iraqi, hours after reports said rebels had overrun it, activists and residents say.

Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho claims "the best team lost" as 10-man Manchester United exit the Champions League.

Dale Cregan put a grenade in the mouth of a man he held captive while on the run from police, a court hears.

Venezuela's President Chavez's life in politics

England spinner Graeme Swann is ruled out of the Test series against New Zealand and will have surgery on an elbow injury.

Jaguar Land Rover invests an extra £150m in its new engine plant in the West Midlands, to employ 700 more workers.

Cristiano Ronaldo strikes as Real Madrid take advantage of Nani's red card to beat Manchester United in the Champions League.

Castlebeck, the company at the centre of a BBC-exposed scandal into physical and mental abuse at one of its care homes, goes into administration.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez bequeaths a nation beset by crumbling infrastructure, unsustainable public spending and underperforming industry.

Kevin Phillips' hat-trick helps Crystal Palace beat Hull to move to within two points of an automatic promotion spot.

Vice-President and Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro was named by President Chavez as his preferred successor back in December 2012.

Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces trial at the ICC, has a large lead over rival Raila Odinga in Kenya's presidential polls, with 40% of results in.

The populist president was an ally of dictators like Cuba's Fidel Castro and loudly opposed the United States. Chavez claimed capitalism was destroying the world and tried to transform Venezuela into a socialist state.

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Environment Minister Alex Attwood says that "no decision" has been taken over the future of the Driver Vehicle Agency in Coleraine.

The government of Venezuela announced today that President Hugo Chavez died at the age of 58.

Marketplace's Scott Tong reported on Chavez's legacy back in January. "Early on in his administration, Chavez took control of biggest piece of the economy: oil," Tong reported.

"He ran the place," Tong said today. "And several people I talked to said the Chavez model goes to the grave with him."

Read Tong's story on the economics of Chavez here.

Chávez, one of Washington's most intransigent adversaries, had served as the Venezuelan president since 1999.

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Fred Butler has done many things in his 106 years, from serving in two military theaters of World War II to helping raise five children. But he had never gone to high school, or earned a diploma — the result of leaving school after the eighth grade to work full-time in a print shop to help support his family.

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