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News • British Broadcasting Corporation
Oil giant BP reports a fall in profits for the last three months, but increases its shareholder dividend by 12.5%.
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Swiss bank UBS is cutting 10,000 job worldwide as it slims down its investment banking activities.
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India's central bank leaves rates unchanged but cuts the amount of money lenders need to keep in reserve in an attempt to boost growth.
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Japan's Hitachi has bought the UK's Horizon nuclear project from German companies E.ON and RWE.
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Baidu, China's biggest search engine, sees a 60% rise in quarterly net income as it continues to attract increasing amounts of advertising.
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Benefit claimants could find themselves "trapped in poverty" as a result of the government's introduction of a new single welfare payment, it is claimed.
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For decades, America has been able to extend its "soft power" beyond its shores through Hollywood movies. According to the BBC's John Sudworth, those American movies are still proving a big hit with Chinese audiences.
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The hidden costs of an 80mph hurricane
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Virgin Australia sells a 10% stake to Singapore Airlines, in an attempt to better compete with Qantas Airways in the Australian market.
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Royal Mail is to create 1,000 jobs in the UK over the next four years as part of a £75m investment programme for its parcels business.
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Eleven cities around the UK will be able to receive 4G mobile coverage from Tuesday morning, but critics have doubts over its cost.
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Taking India's 150 million televisions digital
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Can China's internet firms balance nationalism with global dreams?
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Apple announces a major shake-up of its management, after embarrassing problems with its mapping software and disappointing quarterly results.
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The world’s tallest power pylon has recently been completed in China’s Anhui Province, standing at an impressive 277.5m high.
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A top Bank of England official says the Occupy movement has played a key role in financial reformation.
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Scottish Rugby mull over renaming Murrayfield and say it could generate millions of pounds a year.
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An interim investigation into the West Coast Mail Line franchise process finds "significant errors", a "flawed process" and "inadequate planning", the transport secretary says.
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Eurotunnel's takeover of Sea France assets is referred to the Competition Commission over worries that cross-Channel travellers could face higher fares.
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Inverness chairman Kenny Cameron says the club's financial figures could have been worse despite almost doubling losses in the last year.
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Ministers confirm that 100,000 trees have been destroyed to try to prevent the spread of the deadly ash dieback disease.
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Penguin and Random House, which are merging to form one of the world's biggest publishers, are confident of regulatory approval but will sell "bits and pieces" if necessary.
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What could be done about disease threatening ash trees?
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The iconic Old English Sheepdog is being hit by the growing popularity of so-called "handbag dogs" such as chihuahuas, the UK Kennel Club says.
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The Solheim Cup, the women's version of the Ryder Cup, will he held in Germany for the first time in 2015.
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