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/ 22 September 2009
For the next four weeks, the fear that any bank anywhere, no matter how big, could be at risk would stalk the markets.
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/ 21 September 2009
Andrew Flintoff has described the 2006/07 Ashes tour of Australia, when England were thrashed 5-0, as being like a ”booze cruise”.
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/ 17 September 2009
British celebrity chef Keith Floyd, whose enthusiastic, wine-slurping presenting style revolutionised TV cooking shows, died aged 65 on September 14.
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/ 17 September 2009
The Police get "cold shakes" at the thought of reforming, drummer Stewart Copeland says, insisting the trio have no plans to get back together again.
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/ 15 September 2009
Flamboyant celebrity chef Keith Floyd has died aged 65 after a heart attack.
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/ 15 September 2009
The term “refugee” isn’t one governments want to talk about in the context of climate change
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/ 14 September 2009
Three Britons were jailed for life on Monday for plotting a ”terrorist outrage” on the scale of 9/11 by blowing up transatlantic airliners.
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/ 14 September 2009
All the talking about climate change have resulted in a net achievement of less than nothing: global emissions just keep going up.
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/ 11 September 2009
UK PM Gordon Brown apologised on Friday for the treatment of World War II code-breaker Alan Turing.
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/ 8 September 2009
Barclays bank has been fined £2.45-million for "serious weaknesses" in systems and controls that led to inaccurate reporting of transactions.
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/ 4 September 2009
Britain and the US on Friday defended their strategy in Afghanistan amid mounting criticism over the rising death toll from war-weary voters.
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/ 2 September 2009
Gordon Brown said on Wednesday his government had put no pressure on Scotland to release the Lockerbie bomber to improve trade links with Libya.
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/ 2 September 2009
Dean Richards was the directing mind in the fake-blood scandal that has blighted English rugby, an appeals committee said on Wednesday.
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/ 1 September 2009
The British and Scottish governments will publish documents relating to the release of the Lockerbie bomber on Tuesday.
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/ 1 September 2009
Rugby experienced a tumultuous August, a month that started off well with the sport’s Olympic dream taking a giant step forward.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday he was ”angry” and ”repulsed” at Libya’s welcome home for the Lockerbie bomber.
England regained the Ashes with a sweeping 197-run victory over Australia in the fifth Test at the Oval on Sunday.
British politicians on Friday condemned celebrations in Tripoli on the return of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
A former Libyan agent jailed for life for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people is to be freed on Thursday, the Scottish government said.
Whatever the result of the Oval Test, this has been an Ashes series of high drama — if rarely of the highest quality.
Scotland’s justice minister will on Thursday announce whether the ailing Lockerbie bomber is to be freed.
For months after the declaration of war against Germany in 1939, many Britons were convinced the conflict would be relatively brief.
The Lockerbie bomber was set on Tuesday to formally apply to drop his appeal, a move which could open the way for his transfer back to Libya.
Scotland will decide by the end of next week on the fate of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, convicted of the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people.
”Great Train Robber” Ronnie Biggs is due to be freed from jail on Friday.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting said he had ”loved every minute” of the drawn third Ashes Test at Edgbaston despite being booed.
Throughout a life spent devoted to football, former England manager Bobby Robson shone like a beacon of decency and old-fashioned values.
The British computer hacker Gary McKinnon failed on Saturday in his last-ditch attempt to avoid extradition to the United States.
English football’s leading figures paid tribute to Sir Bobby Robson on Friday after the former England coach lost his long battle with cancer.
Australia’s Shane Watson marked his maiden Test as an opener by batting through to the rain-affected close of the first day of the third Ashes Test.
Benni McCarthy is aiming to recapture his status as one of the Premier League’s most feared forwards.
Andrew Flintoff has revealed the intensive fitness regime that he hopes will allow him to lead England to an Ashes victory over Australia.