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The planned sale of 631 UK bank branches by Lloyds Banking Group to the Co-op group falls through.

A man who murdered his 17-year-old New Zealander girlfriend loses an appeal against his conviction and sentence.

A man murdered the 23-month-old daughter of his girlfriend by "forcibly and repeatedly" punching the girl, Manchester Crown Court hears.

Centre-left politician Enrico Letta appears set to become Italy's prime minister, after being asked to form a new government to end the political paralysis.

Concerns about the flu have intensified as the cases and fatalities mount. Transmission of the virus between birds and humans appears to happen fairly easily. It's unclear whether it can spread from one person to another.

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Authorities say the killings happened in Manchester, Ill., north of St. Louis. A suspect is reportedly in custody. One other person, said to be a child, was injured.

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Staff at the Department for Education in England are set to stage fresh strike action in a dispute over jobs and office closures.

The earliest satellite maps of Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice have been assembled by scientists, showing the floes around the White Continent back in the 1960s were probably as extensive as they are now.

BitTorrent offers a free peer-to-peer based file synching technology to the public as an alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive and others.

About 20 houses are burnt down in riots by cashew nut farmers and other protesters in southern Tanzania, the local MP tells the BBC.

Plans to erect pylons through a Powys valley in a major project to upgrade the electricity network are dropped because it is too steep.

Apple plans to spend $100 billion over the next two-and-a-half years to ease investor concerns over the company's shifting share prices.

Earnings season continues on Wall Street with Procter & Gamble, Ford, Boeing, Qualcomm, and Eli Lilly & Co. all reporting today.

Walmart is losing its image man. Leslie Dach, executive vice president of corporate affairs at Walmart, will be stepping down this summer after seven years on the job.

The transportation safety agency is trying to find out why the certification process for the new passenger aircraft didn't catch a critical problem with batteries.

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US officials are in the Russian republic of Dagestan to speak to the parents of Boston bomb suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

No matter how much money is recouped from Lance Armstrong, the cost to cycling is far greater, says BBC sports editor David Bond.

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez is banned for 10 matches by the FA for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic.

One day after suspending its account because of a hacking, the wire service says it is back on Twitter.

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Culture Secretary Maria Miller tells the arts world it must make the case for public funding by focusing on its economic, not artistic, value.

US authorities drop the charges against a Mississippi man accused of sending letters poisoned with ricin to President Barack Obama and a US senator.

Mesmerizing. Dazzling. Gorgeous. Pick your word. NASA's collection of images taken of the sun over the course of three years is getting rave reviews.

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