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The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has approved News Corporation's plan to spin off Sky News, clearing the way for its proposed £8bn purchase of the 61% of BSkyB it does not already own.
The UK is in danger of falling into a dangerous "state of ambivalence" about the need to confront security challenges abroad because of the drawn-out and bloody conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the shadow defence secretary will say on Thursday.
Ferocious street fighting, air strikes in a heavily populated city and a siege with terrified families held hostage: these were the violent and chaotic scenes yesterday as Colonel Gaddafi's regime began its offensive to claw back the land lost to Libya's revolution.
Eric Pickles has said he is considering using the law to prevent local authorities passing on "disproportionate" cuts to charities.
Explosions heard in Tripoli as UN secretary general warns thousands could die in Libya
Britain is to cut off aid to some of the world's poorest countries in an overhaul of development spending set out yesterday by the Government.
Mervyn King tells MPs: 'The price of this financial crisis is being borne by people who absolutely did not cause it'
The Libyans watched from an open window of the immigration post, leaning out to see the 20,000 fleeing Egyptian, Bangladeshi, Chinese and Iranian workers heaped up against the border wall.
"By 2005 the number of Africans living in poverty was estimated to have grown by nearly a third from 218 million to 300 million"
The UN has spent decades trying to solve the mercenary problem in Africa, but the bloody trade continues unchecked
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