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Yahoo and China's Alibaba Group have agreed to a $7.1 billion deal in which the Hangzhou-based internet behemoth buys back half of Yahoo's 40% stake in the company.

Childcare in the UK needs to be overhauled to make it more affordable, a report by MP Elizabeth Truss, for the CentreForum think tank, suggests.

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Britain's farmers say they are enjoying a boom despite the downturn, as a campaign to highlight their contribution to the economy is launched.

The 29 Chinese fishermen and three boats seized in the Yellow Sea by unidentified North Koreans have been released and back in China, reports say.

Two suspects who appeared in court in Cook County, Illinois, on Sunday are not believed to be part of an alleged terror plot in Chicago during the NATO summit, prosecutors said Sunday.

A prison guard was killed and several employees injured Sunday in a riot at the Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez, Mississippi, officials said.

He recently joked that there's plenty of money "sloshing around" in California, and that the rich are doing just fine. But such words are only a reminder of what a bore the man has become.

Mental health charities say they have seen a surge in calls to their helplines since the start of the recession.

Robin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the disco group the Bee Gees behind "Saturday Night Fever" and other hits from the 1970s, died after a bout with cancer, according to a statement on his website.

Chinese regulators approve Google's $12.5bn purchase of US phone maker Motorola Mobility, the final hurdle for the deal to go through.

Environmentalists fear the UK government's draft energy bill to be published on Tuesday will end in a new "dash for gas".

Nine out of the ten poorest areas in England are in the North West, a church charity survey shows.

A growing number of people are failing to save anything for their retirement - leaving them in a "precarious" position, a pensions provider says.

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NY Daily News | Ten years later, still trying to pretend that the government didn't stage the attacks.

The Guardian | 'Charges against suspected dissident republicans follow one of biggest security operations since IRA's 1994 ceasefire.'

IAEA head Yukiya Amano begins talks in Tehran, after voicing optimism about reaching agreement on Iran's controversial nuclear programme.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has discovered a host of vintage health and safety posters from the 50s, 60s and 70s in a warehouse.