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Photograph: Robert Ghement/EPA Some of the biggest fines in British maritime history were handed down to a group of Spanish fishermen on Th...
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Britain is in the grip of a pickpocketing epidemic as Eastern European gangs descend on London ahead of the Olympic Games. A surge in sneak ...
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They may look small, but the plague of field mice is having a devastating effect in central Germany. Millions of field mice are overrunning ...
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Hearing: Former chief executive Bob Diamond left Barclays over the matter, before appearing before MPs this week A criminal investigation ha...
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The widely used diabetes drug metformin comes with a rather unexpected and alluring side effect: it encourages the growth of new neurons in ...
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Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond has resigned with immediate effect. The move comes less than a week after the bank was fined a record ...
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While marketing and mainstream communications campaigns have derived branding inspiration in the comic-like cartoon style of street art, and...
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Euro 2012 recently began and, for those of you who don’t know, it’s the European football championship. European football is what we America...
' AWARE2' gigapixel camera by duke university above: 3 increasing zoom levels of footage taken by the camera engineers at duke uni...
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DAMIEN HIRST Entitled "Cock and Bull," this showpiece by British artist Damien Hirst towers above diners at Tramshed, which only s...
Video: Drunken Irish fan in Poznan showed victory is all about reaching the little boys' room today at 9:29 am Everyone remembers the po...
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© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Flowers, London Dryland Farming #13, Monegros County, Aragon, Spain, 2010 Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsk...
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On Tuesday night WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange applied for political asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after failing in his bid ...
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David Cameron threatened to veto support for a new European bank rescue deal yesterday as he clashed with Germany over fresh moves towards a...
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Bank of England policymakers meet today to decide whether to change interest rates or to pump in more money into the ailing economy, with le...
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Global capital markets, now the most powerful force on earth, are rapidly losing confidence in the financial coherence of the 17-nation euro...
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A crime linked to Facebook is reported to police every 40 minutes. Last year, officers logged 12,300 alleged offences involving the vastl...
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The Duke of Edinburgh has been taken to hospital with a bladder infection and will miss the rest of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Bucki...
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Luka Rocco Magnotta was arrested in Berlin Monday after a four-day international manhunt that spanned three countries. The 29-year-old Cana...
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US benchmark borrowing costs plunged to levels last seen in 1946 and those for Germany and the UK hit all-time lows as investors took fright...
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Property prices in the capital’s most sought-after postcodes have been driven up by investors moving funds out of assets held in euros to bu...
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Three people have been killed in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck northern Italy near Bologna, according to reports. The quake that s...
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The 63-year-old singer, who had hits including Hot Stuff, Love to Love You, Baby and I Feel Love, died in Florida on Thursday morning. She h...
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Grafitti saying 'Z 100%', referring to the Los Zetas cartel, near to where 49 mutilated bodies were found in Northern Mexico. Photog...
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The trading losses suffered by JPMorgan Chase have surged in recent days, surpassing the bank’s initial $2 billion estimate by at least $1 b...
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Francois Hollande is to be sworn in as France's first Socialist president in 17 years in a ceremony on Tuesday before visiting Berlin to...
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The leader of an extreme-right, anti-immigrant party on course for shock success in Greece's general elections has lashed out at those h...
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At night, the streets leading to Omonoia Square are empty. That wasn't always the case. The area was the premier multicultural neighborh...
