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Manchester City recover from their Premier League loss by making the FA Cup quarter-finals after beating Leeds.

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said the cuts would offset "pretty good" economic activity over the past few months. GOP Rep. Paul Ryan was pessimistic about a deal, while Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer said the two sides would come together for an agreement.

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Owners of holiday homes and rented property could be drawn into paying an extended £2m mansion tax under plans being considered by the Lib Dems.

Ellyse Perry inspires Australia to their sixth Women's World Cup with a 114-run victory over West Indies in Mumbai.

Councils looking for cheap food contracts are to blame for driving down meat quality, the boss of Iceland says, amid the continuing horsemeat scandal.

Israel's former foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, pleads not guilty at the opening of his trial on charges of fraud and breach of trust.

The first known manuscript written by English poet Elizabeth Tanfield Cary is published after spending 400 years in a safe.

Several car bombs explode in mainly Shia areas in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least 21 people and injuring scores more, officials say.

Hollywood star Tom Cruise's visit to a Hertfordshire curry house is turned into a film.

Australian PM Julia Gillard says she is "surprised and disappointed" by Malaysia's deportation of visiting Senator Nick Xenophon.

The work and pensions secretary criticises people taking part in back to work schemes "who think they're too good" for stacking supermarket shelves.

The government's proposed change to housing benefit rules, dubbed the "bedroom tax", is "perverse", shadow minister Stephen Timms says.

Two candidates in the Eastleigh by-election become embroiled in controversy over comments on state schools and ex-PM Margaret Thatcher.

Holders Chelsea seal an FA Cup fifth-round trip to Middlesbrough with a comprehensive victory over League One Brentford.

The explosions targeted mainly Shiite neighborhoods. The attack comes amid increasing Shiite-Sunni tension in Iraq.

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Some 3,500 couples have been married in South Korea in the first mass wedding ceremony organised by the Unification Church since its founder's death.

Pope Benedict XVI asked those gathered in St. Peter's Square to continue praying for him and the next pope. He steps down as pope Feb. 28.

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A teenager is killed and a 32-year-old man is seriously injured in a shooting in east London.

Boxing legends Mike Tyson and Sugar Ray Leonard donate lots for an auction which raises more than £3,000 for the man who was Joe Calzaghe's 'cut man'.

A new oil field has been discovered in the North Sea by the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA).