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Goldman Sachs fined £17.5m by FSA

18 hours 49 min ago
Wall Street banking giant Goldman Sachs is fined £17.5m by the UK's financial watchdog.
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Tinie Tempah leads way for Mobos

18 hours 52 min ago
Rapper Tinie Tempah leads the way in the nominations for this year's Mobo Awards in Liverpool with four nods.
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Your pictures

19 hours 5 min ago
A selection of your images on the theme of going back to work
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Morrisons to test online shopping

19 hours 13 min ago
The UK's fourth biggest grocer, Morrisons, says it hopes to trial online shopping and convenience stores next year.
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'Real women'

19 hours 19 min ago
Plus-size models make New York Fashion Week debut
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Vitamin 'may stop' spina bifida

19 hours 22 min ago
Scientists begin a study to determine if an everyday vitamin supplement could help prevent a common birth defect.
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Huge protest over India CCTV plan

19 hours 27 min ago
Students from different political affiliations are staging a huge protest at one of India's top universities over plans to introduce CCTV.
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World Cup knocks trading at HMV

19 hours 35 min ago
Music, computer games and book retailer HMV says that its sales were disrupted this summer by the football World Cup.
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New evidence for rare black hole

20 hours 9 sec ago
Researchers say they may have found further evidence for the existence of an unusual type of black hole.
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Police may have shot HK hostages

20 hours 2 min ago
Investigators in the Philippines say police may have accidentally shot some of the hostages on a bus hijacked last month.
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Broadband speed gets laser boost

20 hours 28 min ago
A kind of "auto-tune for data" developed by a European team may help increase the capacities of long-haul fibre optic cables.
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Colorado fire destroys homes

20 hours 34 min ago
A forest fire in the US state of Colorado has destroyed at least 136 homes, according to officials.
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Exeter city election polls open

20 hours 40 min ago
Voters in Exeter are electing 13 councillors to bring the city council back to its full complement after the new government denied it unitary status.
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Woman pulled from house fire

20 hours 49 min ago
Firefighters revive a woman found slumped in her living room after she was overcome by smoke in her north Belfast home.
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China abortion activist 'freed'

20 hours 54 min ago
A blind activist jailed after revealing right abuses under China's one-child policy has been freed after a four-year prison term, a rights group says.
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Crumlin alert device was 'viable'

21 hours 2 min ago
The police say a device left close to a primary school in Crumlin, County Antrim was "viable".
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Pakistan roadside bomb kills nine

21 hours 13 min ago
A roadside bomb kills nine people and injures at least four in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region on the Afghan border, reports say.
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Talking pictures

21 hours 31 min ago
Inspirational portraits of some of Wales' best-loved stars
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More rape victims coming forward

21 hours 44 min ago
More rape victims in Wales are now coming forward to seek help for their trauma thanks to new specialist units.
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Plaid will 'change not manage'

21 hours 45 min ago
Plaid Cymru's conference opens with a pledge to transform, not simply manage, Wales.
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