BEIJING — As measured by China’s state-run media, the country’s leadership transition is already well underway. Vice President Xi Jinping , who will move up to Communist Party general secretary later this year and president of China in 2013, has appeared prominently on the front page of China Daily in recent weeks, signing ping pong paddles with former president Jimmy Carter, toasting the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s visit to China, and being welcomed with honors in Thailand and Vietnam. Read full article > >

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In China, will transition bring real change?

Low income families with parents in part-time work could lose about £4,000 a year because of a change in tax credits, Labour says.

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Tax change ‘to cost families £4k’

The speaker said House Republicans would push to change the administration’s rule that religious institutions must offer insurance plans that cover birth control.

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Boehner Vows to Fight Contraception Rule

From Oliver Twist to A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens highlighted poverty and squalor. But did he really help change things?

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Did Dickens really save poor children and clean up the slums?

From Oliver Twist to A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens highlighted poverty and squalor. But did he really help change things?

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Did Dickens really save poor children and clean up the slums?

A Kircubbin woman has called for the hunting laws in Northern Ireland to be changed after her cat was killed by dogs from the North Down hunt.

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‘Barbaric’ hunting dogs kill cat

A family justice system change giving children legal rights to maintain relationships with both parents after separation attracts criticism.

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Child access shake-up criticised

Regulators from the European Union have requested that Google to hold off on rolling out its new privacy policy. In a letter to Google chief executive Larry Page, privacy regulator Jacob Kohnstamm said that European data protection officials would like to examine how the changes to Google’s privacy policy may affect European citizens. He also called for a “pause in the interests of ensuring that there can be no misunderstanding about Google’s commitments to information rights of their users and EU citizens” until the analysis is done. Read full article > >

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EU regulators ask Google to delay new privacy policy

Lib Dem minister Ed Davey is named the new energy and climate change secretary following Chris Huhne’s resignation, while Norman Lamb takes over his role as business minister.

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Ed Davey is new energy secretary

Spencer Kelly explains, with the help of some rather outlandish wigs, how malware changes and disguises itself to avoid detection.

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VIDEO: How latest malware uses disguises

Even as the Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up its investigations of Wall Street, the agency has repeatedly allowed the biggest firms to avoid punishments.

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S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks

TEHRAN — Faced with a plummeting currency in the wake of toughened international sanctions, Iran is cracking down on black-market money changers and warning that major speculators could face execution. Read full article > >

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Four men have admitted planning an al-Qaeda inspired plot to detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange.

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Four admit planning London bomb

Unless Congress passes new legislation changing the course on spending or taxation — changes that are a distinct possibility — projected deficits would “drop markedly,” a report says.

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Under Status Quo, Deficit Would Decline, Budget Office Says 

The government suffers a seventh defeat in the House of Lords over proposed changes to the benefits system.

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New welfare defeat for ministers