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House prices edge higher in a 'sluggish' market
House prices edged ahead by 0.3pc in February as the property market continued to ''tread water'', Nationwide said on Tuesday. The price of an average home was £161,183 in February Photo: PA The increase, which was only the second gain recorded since...
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Ton Plat, a 32-year-old fisherman, pulls in the nets while fishing on the Ijsselmeer inland sea in the Netherlands on this Dec. 2, 1997 file photo. A court fined Dutch fishing village Urk's official Fish Auction 130,000 euro (US$180,000) for fraud on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, after determining it had fudged its books to help local fishermen sidestep European quotas. "The court considers it proven that the between 2002 and 2005, accounts were falsified to avoid E.U. law," the District Court in Leeuwarden said in a written summary of its ruling. Judges agreed with prosecutors that there was a conspiracy in Urk, between the fish regulator, the fishermen and the fish shops.
Continue reading the main story Related Stories EU looking to stop fish discards Fish discards 'over-simplified' EU warning on mackerel sanctions Plans to ban discards, where fish are thrown back in to the sea by fishermen who have used up their EU...
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A Libyan oil worker walks in front of a refinery inside the Brega oil complex, in Brega east of Libya, on Saturday Feb. 26, 2011. Production at Brega has dropped by almost 90 percent amid the country's crisis because many employees have fled and few ships are coming to offload the product
Libya's oil output is down by half as a consequence of political unrest in the country, the International Energy Agency says. That figure matched a 50 per cent fall in production claimed by the North African country's National Oil Company with the...
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Anti-government protestor shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Yemen's opposition parties said Sunday they are joining young protesters in their push to bring down the country's beleaguered president.
IONA CRAIG in Sana'a POLITICAL DIALOGUE ground to a halt in Yemen yesterday as ailing president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his adversaries tried to outwit each other in the rush to gain the allegiance of the tribes amid growing anti-government protests....
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Institute for Marine Mammal Studies veterinary technician Wendy Hatchett lifts a dead bottlenose dolphin that was found on Ono Island, Ala., and brought for examination to Gulfport, Miss., Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. Researchers say that more than a dozen young dolphins, either aborted before they reached maturity or dead soon after birth, have been collected along the Gulf Coast in the past two weeks -- about 10 times the normal number for the first two months of the year. Samples have been sent for testing to see whether the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was a factor in their deaths.
The discovery of more than 80 dead dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico is raising fresh concerns about the effect on sea life from last year's massive BP oil spill. The dead dolphins began appearing in mid-January along the coasts of Louisiana,...
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How Barclays pays its tax worldwide
Your report (£11.6bn profit, 1% tax, 19 February) and subsequent reports have referred to Barclays UK corporation tax payment in 2009 being "only 1% of the profit before tax for the group". I would like to provide some context. In fact, Barclays'...
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The casket of 5-month-old Baxtor Gowland is placed in a car following a service in Christchurch, New Zealand, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Baxtor was killed in Tuesday Feb. 22, 2011's magnitude 6.3 temblor by falling debris as he slept. Police said the death toll from the quake had reached 148 and was expected to rise further. Around 200 people are listing as missing, though many are believed to be among bodies already collected but whose identities have not been established.
CHRISTCHURCH— Christchurch prepared Tuesday to observe a two-minute silence exactly one week after the devastating earthquake which was believed to have killed more than 200 people. Prime Minister John Key has asked all New Zealanders to fall silent...
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Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, front left, reacts with colleagues as he arrives at the Royal Castlebar theatre center, Castlebar, Ireland, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011.
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Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland watches his tee-shot on the seventh hole during the final round of the Singapore Barclays Open golf tournament, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010 in Singapore.
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Dawn broke over the Atlantic Ocean near Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to reveal space shuttle Discovery newly arrived for its upcoming launch in this image taken on Feb. 1, 2011. Discovery began its 3.4-mile trip from the Vehicle Assembly Building at 7:58 p.m. EST Jan. 31, and was secured on the pad a little before 3 a.m. Feb. 1. Discovery is set to launch to the International Space Station on the STS-133 mission on Thursday, Feb
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich looks on before speaking with reporters outside the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 7, 2009, following his meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss education reform.
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AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri gestures during a Champions League, Group G, soccer match between AC Milan and Real Madrid at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. The match ended 2-2.
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United Nations soldiers from Niger return to the U.N. base following a patrol through the streets of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011.
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Qualifying Cup African Nations Cup 2010. Game between the Hawks of Togo and Chad,  un groupe de joueurs togolais football    Eliminatoire de la coupe d'afrique des nation CAN 2010. Match entre les eperviers du togo et le le Tchad
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Sano Shinsuke wears a mask to protect from swine flu as he walks through Times Square after arriving on a flight from Japan, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 in New York. Shinsuke said he feared catching the illness.
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during the 98th Session of the International Labour Organizations, ILO, Monday June 15, 2009, in Geneva, Switzerland.
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