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England v South Africa De Villiers not worried about ball-tampering - video
Speaking ahead of Wednesday's ICC Champions Trophy semi-final, South Africa captain AB De Villiers says he has no proof that England are guilty of ball-tampering to get it to reverse-wing early. The claim that England have been illegally manipulating the ball was made by ex-England fast bowler Bob Willis on ...
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London Sukuk Summit Awards Honour Best Achievers
London- June18 (BNA) The 7th London Sukuk Summit Awards for 2013, which was held on the evening of the 12th June 2013 at the Jumeirah Carlton Hotel at a Gala Awards Dinner, hosted by the organiser, ICG-Events, once again proved highly successful with Qatar, Turkey and Malaysia receiving the three main honours. The main objective of the Awards is to recognise the outstanding contribution by and ...
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Petrol bomb thrown over Belfast interface ignites beside four-year-old girl
Microsoft has revealed that its new XBox One games console will carry an "expensive" price tag of over £400 when it is launched in ...
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Belfast Royal Mail staff stole childrens toys and perfumes
Belfast , also included a Mr Men DVD, Fisher Price electronic toy and Readers Digest Mind Stretchers book.Appearing alongside him at the city's magistrates' court was ...
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To farm I have to rape the countryside. It’s got to be wrong The true effect of the badger cull
finds a growing number of farmers - including those whose own farms have been blighted by TB - are now questioning the nature of the cull and its likely ...
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Stand by for another DECADE of wet summers say meteorologists
Britain faces ten more years of wet summers, after the Met Office revealed the country is in the midst of a rare weather cycle that increases the prospect of summer rain and could last for two ...
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Former No 10 spin chief Andy Coulson has appeared in court charged with perjury
Details of his private appearance at Glasgow Sheriff Court last week, where he made no plea or declaration and was granted bail, was only made possible after a successful legal challenge overturned an earlier court order which banned any media reporting of the legal proceedings.Mr Coulson, 45, was detained at his London home last May and driven 400 miles to Glasgow by officers from the former ...
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British teenager dies in holiday hotel fall
Bulgaria after apparently plunging 10 floors from a hotel balcony at a seaside resort.Liam Davies, 19, known as Shaun, was on a package holiday with friends in the popular resort of Sunny Beach on the Black Sea. He is believed to have fallen to his death on Sunday after returning to his hotel in the early hours of the morning after a night out.The teenager, from Llanelli, south Wales, worked at ...
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London shares close higher ahead of Fed meeting
A man walks past the London Stock Exchange, in central London. London shares closed higher on Tuesday as investors hoped the two-day Federal Reserve Board meeting will not spark too sharp a reduction in the Fed's stimulus programme to shore up the United States economy, dealers ...
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Scientists Soggy British weather likely to stay
Weather scientists said Tuesday that a country that has been unusually soggy in recent years is not likely to dry out soon, and a warm Atlantic Ocean may be to ...
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‘Angels of Woolwich’ petition presented to Downing Street
More than 85,000 people have signed a petition calling for bravery medals to be given to three women who intervened in the aftermath Lee Rigby's ...
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Golf Rose win an inspiration for Britain
Ever since Greg Norman's memorable final-round implosion let Nick Faldo win the Masters in 1996, a generation of fine English talent has come up short in golf's four major championships. With his seven top-3 finishes, Lee Westwood's near misses are a thing of golfing folklore. Luke Donald has also been ranked No 1 but never come that close down the stretch in a major. Ian Poulter saves his best ...
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G8 shows Northern Ireland is open for business
David Cameron said you ';couldn’t put a value'; on the free advertising for Northern Ireland as a result of the G8 summit. The Prime Minister said his fellow G8 leaders had been impressed and added that he hoped it would help people realise how "magnificent" Northern Ireland is.Mr Cameron used the summit's closing press conference to say he hoped the G8 had shown ...
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Naturists banned from Holkham beach after series of indecent acts
Naturists are to be banned from a renowned beauty spot after police were alerted to indecent acts at the popular beach. The miles of white sand at Holkham in north Norfolk have long been shared by families, dog walkers and nudists as well as hosting an annual beach ride by the Queen's Household Cavalry. But the decades-long tradition will soon be brought to an end after managers at the ...
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Paralympic gold medallists named on 48-strong British team for IPC Athletics World Championships
June 18 - Jonnie Peacock, Hannah Cockroft and Richard Whitehead are among the Paralympic champions named on the 48-strong British team heading to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships next month. London 2012 gold medallists Mickey Bushell, Aled Davies and Josie Pearson also feature on the line-up, which in total includes 28 podium finishers from last ...
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Charles Saatchi Taking caution for holding Nigella Lawsons throat was better than it hanging over all of us
Nigella Lawson photos: Charles Saatchi accepts caution for assault over incident in Scott's restaurant when he put his hands on throat of ...
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Legal profession must do more to improve ethnic diversity says Supreme Court president
The UK's top judge has acknowledged that the senior judiciary is monolithic and there are not enough members of ethnic minorities ...
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Army job cuts 4480 soldiers made redundant by MoD
More than 4,000 soldiers will be handed their notice as the Government tries to reduce the number of full-time regulars from 102,000 to 82,000 by 2018. To compensate, the MoD plans to inflate the number of Territorial Army reservist troops from 19,000 to 30,000 over the same period.The MoD has insisted operational capability will not be affected and assured remaining employees there will be no ...
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England dogged by reverse swing issue on eve of South Africa semi-final
South Africa's captain AB de Villiers said on reverse swing: 'It's something the umpires and the ICC will probably look into.' Photograph: Kirsty ...
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England will bank on home advantage to reach Champions League final | Mike Selvey
Dale Steyn . It was to prove the final act of a dramatic match and with the scores identical in runs and wickets and under the Duckworth-Lewis calculation that came into operation, the match was deemed a tie with a point each. Thus it was that it will be South Africa rather than West Indies who will face England at the Oval to decide who goes through to Sunday's final of the Champions ...
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Boris Johnson salutes the suit at Londons Savile Row – video
In an effort to promote homegrown design, London mayor Boris Johnson poses with models at Savile Row, traditional home of London's tailoring industry. Johnson says the traditional suit was created in London, claiming, 'London is to the suit as Parma is to parmesan cheese. And when the big cheeses of the world want to get themselves properly attired, they come to our great ...
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British financial authorities look to snatch back US lead over Libor
David Green, director of the SFO, has the full backing of government to assert a British lead in Libor prosecutions. Photograph: Shaun Curry for the ...
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Bruised opponents seek knockout blow
The Oval for an ODI last summer. Amla made 268 runs fewer than the 311 he amassed in the first Test, and was removed by no less a bowler than Jade Dernbach, before Jonathan Trott's patient half-century was followed a brisker one from Eoin Morgan in a four-wicket win. Sounds like a good formula, doesn't it? That the series finished 2-2 suggests these teams are reasonably well ...
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Syria crisis G8 nations agree to revive peace talks but Vladimir Putin dashes hopes of immediate breakthrough
The G8 nations papered over differences between Russia and the West by agreeing to try to revive peace talks in Geneva. But Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, stopped short of calling for Assad to go--the view of the seven other leaders. No date was set for peace talks, a move which could give Assad more time to defeat the opposition fighters in the country's civil war. The G8 said only ...
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UK considers linking nuclear price deal to inflation - source
LONDON (Reuters) - The government is considering linking the guaranteed price for electricity from new nuclear plants to inflation to sweeten a deal with France's EDF, a senior industry source said. "It's not clear yet what measure of inflation ...
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Britain losing interest in leading?
Britain was once the most powerful country in the world, it ran an empire that was the envy of every other colonial power, and gave the world a number of modern institutions that are still widely used today, most notable in the realm of political systems and democratic checks and balances. But Britain today is a shadow of what it once was, some might say it is just another country, nothing special.
Perhaps it’s a little harsh to say there’s nothing special about the UK. The United Kingdom remains an influential country in international politics, especially throughout the Commonwealth, and the capital city, London, is headquarters to some of the world’s biggest companies and home to one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. Read more
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