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The jury at the retrial of ex-cabinet minister Chris Huhne's former wife Vicky Pryce is told by the judge to listen to the case "afresh".

Sir Ranulph Fiennes has pulled out of an expedition across Antarctica in winter because of severe frostbite.

Tesco is making 150 job cuts at its distribution centre at Magor in Monmouthshire.

For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try McDonald's new "Fish McBites." They're basically a seafood version of their Chicken McNuggets. Or as McDonald's calls it, "tender pieces of poppable white, flaky Alaskan Pollock."

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On the first day of a trial in New Orleans to determine who should pay for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP is accused of having put profits before safety.

Four family members, including two children, are missing after reporting they were abandoning a sinking sailboat in the Pacific near San Francisco.

Ian Pannell with the Syrians going underground to escape fighting

A man who murdered the Irish vet Catherine Gowing and dismembered her body, has been sentenced to a minimum of 37 years in jail.

Scientists believe a long-lost land mass, sandwiched between the land masses that make up today's India and Madagascar, was lost on the sea tens of millions of years ago.

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Daniel Day-Lewis becomes the first person to win the best actor Oscar three times, while Ben Affleck's thriller Argo is crowned best film.

The Supreme Court says it won't hear a case that would have let candidates solicit money from corporations. By doing so, the court is reaffirming one strict ban on corporate political money, after easing other limits in its controversial Citizens United ruling three years ago.

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The pound remains under pressure in the wake of Moody's decision to deprive the UK of its top-notch AAA credit rating.

Many African-Americans complained about the bureau's use of the word during the 2010 Census, calling it offensive and outdated. On Monday, officials said they would stop using it.

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Mixed doubles specialist Jenny Wallwork retires after claiming she was ignored and talked down to.

Talks start Tuesday in Kazakhstan. The U.S. and its allies want Iran to give up any ambitions for nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

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Sir Denis Forman, the former Granada TV chairman who was responsible for bringing programmes such as Coronation Street to screens, dies aged 95.

British heavyweight David Price wants a rematch with Tony Thompson and would consider fighting in the United States.

The decision by Yahoo to stop its remote work policy seems to fly in the face of recent trends that allow more working-from-home, not less.

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The UN says nearly 70,000 people have died in Syria and hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes, most civilians remain trapped in appalling conditions

Chancellor George Osborne responds to an urgent question on the economy.