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Piracy levels are falling, thanks to a combination of legal action and better legal alternatives, a market research firm says.

Rosslyn rapist Robert Greens is ordered to serve another year of his original jail sentence after breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order.

Hessel, France's surprise elder icon, dies at 95

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Sir Ranulph Fiennes has left his Antarctic base after abandoning his polar mission because of frostbite

Fashion giant DKNY apologises to a US street photographer after hundreds of his photos were used in a Bangkok shop window display without permission.

Madness will perform a special show in the car park in front of BBC Television Centre to bid a "fond farewell" to the building after 53 years.

Some results of first lady's anti-obesity effort

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Dubai adds tallest hotel to superlative list

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Also: Flooding follows snow in the Midwest; Iran will continue international nuclear talks; Taliban uses poison to kill Afghan police and civilians; and Ill. candidate field narrowed for elections to fill Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s seat.

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Yesterday wasn’t a good day for Anheuser-Busch InBev. The company announced its profits fell last quarter, by almost five percent, and it got saddled with three lawsuits alleging the company has misrepresented how much alcohol is in its beer. 

Budweiser is what’s called an American lager. For many years, Anheuser-Busch was run by a family with exacting standards.

“They specified the barley, the hops,” says Peter Reid, the publisher of  Modern Brewery Age, a magazine about the beer industry. “All the ingredients were top notch.”

He says that InBev, the company that bought Anheuser-Busch in 2008, has a reputation for cost-cutting, but still, he says he is skeptical of what the plaintiffs claim.

“I was surprised in the suit that they hadn’t done independent testing of the alcohol content.”

In a statement, Anheuser-Busch says the claims are “completely false,” and these lawsuits are “groundless.”

Many large-scale beer makers do brew high-alcohol beer, then water it down to a normal level, to sell to consumers.

“It’s much quicker, easier, and cheaper to water down a product later on,” says Matt Simpson, owner of “The Beer Sommelier.” He says that’s one thing, but if the company mislabeled what it was selling, that’s another.

Taliban kill 17 Afghans in attack in east

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Oil steady as Fed's Bernanke eases concerns

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Report: Spending cuts could force runway closures

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Senate panel hearing from Newtown father, doctor

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Budweiser maker AB InBev reports lower profit

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A report says the biggest sequester burden will fall on the Washington, D.C., area, while the Pentagon is already shuffling deployments to save money.

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A report says the biggest sequester burden will fall on the Washington, D.C. area, while the Pentagon is already shuffling deployments to save money.

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The new owners of Jimmy Savile's former penthouse in Leeds say they are planning to demolish it and build a new apartment in its place.

US futures edge up; Bernanke back before Congress

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During the nearly two-year-old battle that has cost tens of thousands of lives, the U.S. has not given direct assistance to those who oppose President Bashar Assad's regime. Now, news outlets say, the U.S. may send body armor, vehicles and other such goods.

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