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US takes over key mortgage firms
The US government announces plans for the takeover of failing mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
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Caribbean lashed by Hurricane Ike
Thousands of people hunker down across the Caribbean as Hurricane Ike pounds the region, on course for Cuba.
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Flood fears ease as rains lighten
Flood fears are easing as showers replace persistent rain across England and Wales and river levels stabilise.
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Canadian PM calls snap election
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls an early election in a bid to strengthen his minority government.
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Kandahar rocked by suicide blasts
Two suicide bomb blasts kill at least two people and injure 29 in a police station in the Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.
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'£30m' to destroy cluster devices
The BBC learns that the MoD is to destroy explosives from its mothballed cluster bombs.
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Nationwide in talks over mergers
The Nationwide Building Society is in merger talks with two smaller rivals, the Derbyshire and Cheshire Building Societies.
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Cameron: Back Brown or sack him
Conservative party leader David Cameron calls on Labour to support or reject Gordon Brown as leader.
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Civil servants to vote on strike
Civil servants are to be balloted over taking industrial action for at least three months, the PCS union announces.
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Silent movie co-star of Buster Keaton dies at 98
Actress Anita Page, who starred alongside Buster Keaton and Joan Crawford, dies aged 98 in Los Angeles.
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Hamilton stripped of Belgian win
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton is stripped of victory in a dramatic Belgian Grand Prix and demoted to third as the win is handed to Ferrari's Felipe Massa.
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Capello angry with Cole & Rooney
England coach Fabio Capello says he vented his fury at Joe Cole and Wayne Rooney for not following instructions against Andorra.
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Murray hoping to finish off Nadal
Andy Murray is hoping to continue where he left off against Rafael Nadal when their US Open semi-final resumes on Sunday evening.
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Golden haul for GB on opening day
Britain's cyclists sweep to three gold medals in world record times on the first day of the Paralympic Games in Beijing.
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Your pictures
Worst of the floods hit central and northern England
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In pictures
First medals are won at Paralympics
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Cosmic colossus
An introduction to the world's biggest physics experiment
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'Just in time'
Morpeth residents spend night in shelters after rains
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Market forces
So how many economists to change a lightbulb?
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Now we are 10
As Google turns 10, it looks to its next decade
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Man killed in bus and tram crash
A man is killed in an accident involving a bus, a tram and a car in a street in Croydon on Sunday, police say.
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Heroin warning after two deaths
Drug users in the Inverness area are warned of possible contaminated heroin, after two sudden deaths at the weekend.
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Valley flood disruption continues
Some schools and transport face disruption as a minister praises the efforts in dealing with the weekend floods.
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Father arrested over baby murder
Detectives investigating the murder of a 14-week-old baby boy are questioning the child's father.
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Angolan MPLA set for big poll win
Angola's ruling MPLA party is heading for a landslide win in parliamentary polls, preliminary results show.
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US rivals to make 9/11 appearance
US presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain say they will appear together on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
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Cairo rockslide search continues
Rescuers in Cairo continue their search for survivors after a rockslide hit dozens of homes in Egypt's capital, killing at least 31 people.
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Hong Kong legislative polls open
Voters in Hong Kong choose between pro-government and more pro-democracy candidates in a hotly contested poll.
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Ukraine 'must live without fear'
The US vice-president reassures Ukraine that the US has a "deep and abiding interest" in the country's security.
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