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Shares in SABMiller were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after Australian rival Fosters rejected a takeover offer made by the group.

Australia faces air transport chaos after ash from Chile's Cordón Caulle volcano shut the country's busiest airports.

Susan Boyle's meteoric rise in fame since she came in second on Britain's Got Talent will be brought to life in a new stage musical

A British man, dubbed the 'Silence of the Lambs rapist' is to be deported back to the United Kingdom after Australian immigration officials ruled the man had violated his visa terms after staying in the country after his release from prison.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday pressed all African states to demand the Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi step down and take tougher action against his regime.

fter months of hesitations, Germany has yesterday recognised Libya's rebels as "the legitimate representatives of the Libyan people", becoming the 13th country to do so after after Australia, Britain, France, Gambia, Italy, Jordan, Malta, Qatar, Senegal, Spain, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

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Shares in Britvic were up on the FTSE 250 in morning trading after the drinks company reported a slight dip in pre-tax profit in the half year ended 17 April.

As the two-day G8 summit is set to start today in Deauville, much hype has been made of the need for the group of states to discuss and decide new policies on matters including supporting new regimes in North Africa and the Middles East or reviewing Japan's nuclear crisis and discuss new policies regarding nuclear power.

Andrew Strauss has rubbished talk of an "Ashes hangover" as England look to build on their winter success this summer, starting against Sri Lanka in Cardiff today.

Shares in British banks were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after a report that Virgin Money is planning to put in a bid for 600 Lloyds Banking Group branches.

FIFA, football's governing body, has announced it is to investigate vice-president Jack Warner and presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam over bribery allegations.

This England team wants to be the best cricket team in the world now, and the best England team of all time. Three months from now we will have a much clearer idea where they stand. First Sri Lanka and then India await, seven Tests that could define this group of cricketers.

Australian scientist Professor Alan Cowman from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne has been elected as a Fellow into Britain's Royal Society for his work on malaria.

Mothercare has said that it will be closing over a quarter of its stores in the United Kingdom, just as it announced massive growth in its international markets.

With PSN service finally crawling back to life, Sony representatives have offered an olive branch of peace to frustrated consumers in the shape of an as yet unspecified "Welcome Back" package of services and premium content.

My article "AV or not AV, that is the question" appears to have upset 'Abigail' by the tone of her comment posted at the foot of my article. Here's what she said:

It's Thursday, 05 May 2011 and the British are being given the opportunity to decide in a Referendum on whether or not to change the way the electorate votes and chooses its MPs. On offer, is sticking with the current system of electing one outright winner who simply gets the largest number of votes cast, commonly known as "First-past-the-post" (FPTP) or, to change to an Alternative Voting system (AV) whereby the winning candidate must obtain more than 50 per cent of all votes cast - m...

Shares in AMEC were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the engineering company issued a positive interim statement.

One of the "forgotten" former headline stories was the catastrophic flooding in Queensland, Australia. Here is a snippet of what has been happening.

Shares in Bunzl were up on the FTSE 250 in morning trading after the outsourcing group issued a positive statement for the period since 31 December 2010.

Shares in Vedanta Resources were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the mining group reported record production of zinc and aluminium during the full year ended 31 March 2011.

Shares in Hays were down on the FTSE 250 in afternoon trading despite the recruitment company reporting a rise in net fees in the third quarter ended 31 March.

Shares in Mothercare were down on the FTSE 250 in morning trading after the group said it was cautious about the coming year, despite seeing a rise in sales in the full year ended 26 March.

Insurance company Lloyds of London said today that in 2010 it made a profit of £2.2 billion, despite the impact of "significant claims" resulting from natural disasters.

Prince William has praised the courage of rescue workers and given his condolences to those who lost loved ones as a result of the flooding that hit Queensland, Australia at the beginning of this year.

Shares in Michael Page were down on the FTSE 250 in morning trading despite the recruitment firm reporting a rise in revenue and pre-tax profit in the full year ended 31 December 2010.

Presenting a look at the list of top 5 national universities in terms of the proportion of undergraduate students who have internship experience and the support available to them.

Shares in Hays were up on the FTSE 100 in afternoon trading after the recruitment company reported a surge in pre-tax profit in the half year ended 31 December 2010.

Shares in Lloyds Banking Group were down on the FTSE 100 in morning trading after the group reported a decline in pre-tax profit in the full year 2010.