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First Minister Alex Salmond's drive for Scottish independence has uncanny echoes to a failed attempt by Quebec's Separatists nearly seventeen years ago.

Home secretary stops extradition over fears it would impeach hacker's human rights and put him at risk of suicide.

Alternative Hair Show is a fund-raiser for those suffering from leukaemia.

Future Financial Conduct Authority chiefs talks in detail about changes being made to improving the UK's financial services industry for consumers

Tehran regime would welcome outside attack as way to unite anti-Western opinion, says prime minister

Number of breast cancer patients aged over 65 will reach one million within 30 years.

Britain's consumer price index eases to 2.2 percent in September, slowest since 2009, but gas and electricity prices look set to reverse the trend

Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha is not for sale according to co-chairman Steve Browett, despite the England Under-21 international being linked with Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City.

Wyn-Davies and fellow gang members Nicholas Cordery, Anthony Flack and Peter Malpas raped children as young as eight and held bestiality parties at secluded farmhouse.

Canada cleanest place in the world to do business, says fraud survey.

Cameron counsels restraint to Israel so as not to give a handle to Iranian regime to rally its people.

Ballroom dancing prison guard and ski resort anarchists among star turns but Eurosceptics accuse Brussels of propaganda.

Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla says he tries to model his game on Barcelona schemer Andres Iniesta.

Nile Ranger given 12-month conditional discharge after race abuse punch-up with gang of men.

Former football star was alarmed by irregular heartbeat this summer - just months after recovering from heart attack which left him clinically dead for over an hour.

Hands-on with the PlayStation Wonderbook, the new Harry Potter Book of Spells game and how Sony is reaching the family market

Felix Baumgartner's dive from the edge of space broke the record for the most-watched live stream on YouTube, with eight million viewers.

Arsenal wing-back Andre Santos has revealed he would consider a return to Turkey, if any of the Super Lig teams made an offer for him

RBS leads the losers in FTSE 100, following the collapse of its branch sale to Banco Santander.

Heather Watson became the first British woman to win a WTA singles title in 24 years by triumphing at the Japan Open.

Brendan Rodgers has asked Liverpool owners for funds to invest in new players during the January transfer window

Arsenal's Theo Walcott has been withdrawn from the England squad to play Poland in a World Cup qualifier

Daniel Craig returns as agent 007 in a thoroughly modern adventure that brings James Bond home to the UK.

Spanish midfielder Mikel Arteta has revealed his success at Arsenal, as a deep-lying playmaker, has brought about a change in his mental approach to the game

Tottenham Hotspur's Clint Dempsey has expressed his happiness in the new central role handed to him by manager Andre Villas-Boas.

Edgar Davids' move to Barnet FC to work alongside Mark Robson smacks of individual gain at the expense of the club's morals

Ancient rockers' first new song in seven years reminds fans and critics what made them great in the first place.

MIT professor Arnold Barnett says commuters at most risk of being victims of terror attack.

Scotland Yard ordered to pay compensation after distressing pregnant officer.

An London 2012 Olympic ticket fraudster whose fake websites sold €450,000 worth of tickets in five weeks has been jailed for four years