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Chancellor George Osborne wants to increase UK exports, but the slowdown in manufacturing will complicate this ambition.

Heading into day 11, Team GB will be hoping to surpass the 19 gold medal achieved at Beijing 2008.

Google's latest in its series of Olympic doodles is an interactive doodle on men's 110m hurdles.

Great Britain's Beth Tweddle won bronze on her final Olympic appearance in the uneven bars individual final.

Third-placed Team GB aim to build on tally of 16 golds, 11 silvers and 10 bronzes.

Team GB's women's Olympic medal hopes hang by a thread after a surprising defeat to China at the Riverbank Arena.

Great Britain will be looking to win more medals as London 2012 enters Super Saturday, one of the biggest days of the Olympics, with around 25 titles to be won.

Resolution criticises President Bashar al-Assad for using heavy weapons in Damascus and Aleppo.

It's hard to blame Shiwen for the sins of her compatriots, but it's harder for us to accept her stunning performance because of their history.

Reports suggest Italian club Inter Milan have agreed a transfer fee with Sao Paulo over the transfer of the Brazilian

Sergei Martynov wins Belarus' first gold medal of the London 2012 Olympics and China lock out the final of the women's singles badminton event

UN General Assembly set to vote on new proposals against President Bashar al-Assad's regime - but reports suggest the new draft has been watered down.

All major Asian indices extend their loss as the ECB fails to hold out any hope of immediate action to save the troubled eurozone.

Huge numbers of people in dire need of food and water and many areas face outbreak of disease.

Sir Chris Hoy adds another gold to Team GB tally in wildly successful day of six medals for Olympic hosts.

Victoria Pendleton and Jess Varnish have both been disqualified from the womens team sprint cycling event at the Velodrome, with the pair relegated out of medal contention after a rule error.

Inconclusive meeting between leaders of UK and Russia who have been at odds over Syria throughout the conflict.

People of Newport in Sydney find humpback whale that washed up dead in a beach side swimming pool.

'Goodbye my beloved badminton' cries Yu following expulsion of eight players for deliberate under-performance.

After causing widespread havoc in Taiwan and the Philippines, the typhoon is headed for China.

Table tennis was introduced in modern Olympics in the 1988 Seoul Games and China has been on top.

US coordinating with secret command centre operated by Turkey and allies to provide support to Syrian rebels.

All eight badminton players involved in yesterday's controversies have been banned from the London 2012 Olympics after a series of appeals over their elimination from the women's doubles attempting to "throw" matches were rejected by the Badminton World Federation.

Four Women's Doubles Pairs Charged For Match Fixing

So intense is the competition between the Americans and the Chinese that the Olympics is rapidly becoming a proxy war of sorts... hardly a surprising development given the countries involved

The UK-listed bank fulfilled analyst and own expectations and bucked the trend by posting higher profits and bumping up dividend.

English champions Manchester City are reportedly lining up a £35m move for Real Madrid's Argentinean striker Gonzalo Higuain

IBTimes UK looks ahead to all the action taking place at the 2012 London Olympics

David Florence, Euan Burton and women's gymnast team fail in their search for medals.

From 6 ft 10 in Anthony Davis to 4 ft 9 in Rebecca 'Twiglet' Tunny, the 2012 Games is being lit up by young gems striking gold.