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Bank faces £500m fine to settle with US and UK regulators over Libor-rigging scandal.

G4S will be working alongside French consortium partners Thales and Onet for the project.

£2.7m, nine-week ad campaign, targets younger generation.

Warning follows US and UK concern that Assad regime set to use chemical weapons.

Car sharing schemes provides the flexibility to pick up and drop of their hire car anywhere in the city.

Land grab in the past decade equals area that could have produced enough food for a billion people, says Oxfam.

Foul weather conditions are forecast to spill over into next week bringing more rain and floods in some parts.

Falling meteorite or space junk provides spectacular light show as it burns up.

British fashion retailer hit by weak consumer demand because of sluggish economy.

National Housing Federation says 3,960 families were living in temporarily bed and breakfast accommodations between January to March 2012.

A survey by the hiring firm Manpower finds that firms of all sizes in the country are set to increase their headcount in coming months.

After RBS takeover, TUC wants a state investment bank which can issue bonds and fund small businesses.

Sharp drop in August sales as consumers postpone purchase decisions.

However, there is a year-on-year decline of 34% because of the European debt crisis and recession.

The UK is invoking diplomacy law to raid the embassy - but Ecuador promises strong resistance.

Agriculture Minister Jim Paice announces pact with China, the world's biggest market for pig meat.

David Cameron prefers the single currency bloc to sort out its own problems.

A new research says a million people will be jobless for more than a year by the end of 2012, suggests a new report.

Former US President George Washington has been named UK's greatest-ever foe in a survey conducted by the National Army Museum.

David Cameron indicated easing of sanctions against Burma while arriving at Naypyitaw as part of his South East Asian visit.

Britain had higher proportion of unemployed black men during economic downturn over last three recessions.

Britain is planning to tap energy from Iceland's volcanoes to meet the growing energy needs of the country.

Gu Kailai, wife of former Chinese Communist Party politburo member Bo Xilai, arrested for suspected involvement in murder of Neil Heywood.

British Youths from African communities could be radicalised as al-Qaida looks at Africa as a potential new front to build its strength

40 per cent of the children surveyed did not know the UK is in Europe.

The UK, the US and France are in favour of a strategic oil release.

Modern architecture master and Bauhaus pioneer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe honoured.

The attack is believed to be linked to an investigation into the attempted murder of another Russian financier.

The EU sanctions might put a ban on her travel to the UK where she was born and brought up.

Cameron called for more private participation and investment in the infrastructure sector to reduce congestion in road networks.