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Microsoft is offering a free upgrade and will unveil version 8.1 of Windows at its annual developers conference in San Francisco.
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Anglo Irish Bank's former chief executive joked about the haemorrhage of funds from the bank hours before the state bank guarantee came into effect - according to leaked tapes from inside the bank.
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The BBC looked at the statistics about the UK economy as the Chancellor claimed that it was now out of "intensive care" ahead of his Spending Review speech to the Commons on Wednesday lunchtime,
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The government of Spain's biggest region, Andalusia is set to seize dozens of properties.
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The local authority workers' union, Unison, has won an equal pay case for female workers on Dumfries and Galloway Council at the Supreme Court.
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There are more than 250,000 second homes in Britain, according to the latest statistics. The BBC's Mike Thomson reports.
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Governments everywhere are struggling to cope with an increase in new substances known as "legal highs", the UN's latest World Drug Report says.
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Public hearings begin in The Hague as Australia and Japan take their fight over whaling to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
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Perth-based Stagecoach Group reports a rise in sales driven by its regional bus business and operations in the US.
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The file-sharing company says it wants people to watch TV shows and films without breaking the law.
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News International, the media company behind newspapers including the Times and the Sun, changes its name to News UK.
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Our perception of a food's taste can be influenced by the appearance of the spoon or fork used to eat it, research suggests.
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A computer model has supported the social brain theory - that animals in complex social groups have evolved larger brains.
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Direct Line Insurance announces plans to cut 2,000 jobs in the UK as part of measures to reduce costs.
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An international team of scientists identifies a new bird species, in an unexpected context in the capital city of Cambodia, Phnom Penh.
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Australia says it is hopeful it will win its case against Japan's "scientific" whaling that begins on Wednesday in the International Court of Justice.
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Easyjet is to start new flights from Inverness to London replacing those lost by Flybe pulling out of the Highland airport.
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Astronauts from China's fifth manned space mission land safely after a 15-day trip to the Tiangong-1 space laboratory.
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Taiwan has come up with a system that has boosted tax revenues by making both businesses and customers pay attention to the tax system - a lottery-style draw.
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Japan's SoftBank will become one of the world's largest mobile operators after shareholders in Sprint Nextel backed its revised bid for a 78% stake in the business.
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An experiment in rats suggests it may one day be possible to restore bladder function in paralysed patients, research suggests.
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Mongolia's elections will be a test of how happy the population is with the distribution of its new-found mineral wealth.
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Three and a half years after the earthquake, Haiti struggles to bring tourists back to its beaches and overcome its image as an unstable country.
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How to survive on $2 and $20 a day
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Migration of Europe's young jobless fuels brain-drain fears
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