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AFP, Published on 17/04/2013
» Manchester City and Wigan will stage a dress rehearsal for next month's FA Cup final at Eastlands on Wednesday with both sides looking for points for very different reasons.
AFP, Published on 17/04/2013
» 1158 GMT: We are winding up our live report now, after a morning in which Britain said goodbye to one of its most contentious politicians, former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, at a ceremonial funeral.
AFP, Published on 17/04/2013
» Orbital Sciences, one of two private US firms chosen by NASA to shuttle cargo to the International Space Station, is preparing for the first launch of its Antares rocket Wednesday.
AFP, Published on 17/04/2013
» British supermarket giant Tesco on Wednesday took a pound sterling1.2-billion ($1.8-billion, 1.4-billion-euro) hit from its failed US division Fresh & Easy, sparking the first drop in annual profits in almost two decades, and confirmed its exit from the United States.
AFP, Published on 17/04/2013
» German automaker Daimler said Wednesday it pocketed 2.2 billion euros ($2.9 billion) from the sale of its remaining 7.5-percent stake in the European aerospace and defence group EADS.
AFP, Published on 17/04/2013
» A seven-year-old girl who contracted the H7N9 strain of bird flu left hospital on Wednesday and appeared before media in an apparent bid by health authorities to cool concerns about the deadly virus.
AFP, Published on 17/04/2013
» A former Chinese national youth team basketball player branded as "scum" after she emerged playing in a Japanese league with Japanese citizenship has sparked heated debate over patriotism in sport in China.
AFP, Published on 17/04/2013
» Margaret Thatcher was laid to rest on Wednesday with military pageantry and pockets of protests, in a funeral that reflected the polarising impact of Britain's longest-serving post-war prime minister.
AFP, Published on 17/04/2013
» European new car registrations fell by another 10.2 percent in March from the same month a year earlier, marking the 18th consecutive monthly decline, to 1.307 million vehicles, data released on Wednesday by the European Automobile Manufacturer's Association (ACEA) showed.
AFP, Published on 17/04/2013
» Six-time Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will compete at the Anniversary Games at London's Olympic Park in July, organisers confirmed on Wednesday.