London’s skyline would look very different today if some of the plans for towers and skyscrapers that have been proposed in the past had been built.

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VIDEO: The skyscrapers London never saw

The bloodshed in Syria has spilled over the border into neighbouring Lebanon, fuelling fears of a return to the sectarian violence seen the past.

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VIDEO: Syria unrest fuels Lebanon fears

JPMorgan Chase has spent upward of $20 million on lobbying and campaign contributions in the past three years. On Tuesday, the bank received a healthy dividend on that investment. Its chairman, Jamie Dimon, has admitted that the firm was “sloppy” and “stupid” in making trading bets that lost $2 billion. But Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee wouldn’t hear of it; they preferred to blame government. Read full article > >

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Senators put federal regulators, not JPMorgan, on the hot seat

“American Idol” Mentor-in-Chief Jimmy Iovine insists that Phil Phillips — this season’s Safely Scruffy White Guy With Guitar/Inevitable Winner — is vastly superior to the SSWGWG’s who have won the Fox singing competition the past several seasons. Read full article > >

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‘Idol’ mentor: Phil Phillips has ‘crazy charisma, incredible sound’

Mitt Romney wants to talk about the economy. But his ostensible allies keep interrupting him, and his own party is threatening to drown him out. A reality of modern campaigning is that any candidate — even one as buttoned-down and disciplined as Romney — has to contend with stronger political crosswinds than in the past. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney distances himself from racially fueled proposal to attack Obama

Crime on Wales’ railways has fallen by a quarter over the past year, figures from British Transport Police show.

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Railway crime falls by a quarter

More than £10.5m worth of proceeds of crime has been recovered in the past year in Scotland.

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Crime cash seizures top £10.5m

The quantity of small plastic fragments floating in the North Pacific Ocean has increased a hundred fold over the past 40 years.

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Big rise in Pacific plastic waste

PARIS — The men and women who are elbowing for senior posts in Francois Hollande’s new French government reflect a range of political trajectories. But one thing they share is Hollande’s view of socialism as free-market social democracy — a pragmatic ideology in which nationalizations, clenched fists and the hammer and sickle are things of the past. Read full article > >

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French cabinet hopefuls share Francois Hollande’s pragmatic view of socialism

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is calling on Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren , his Democratic challenger, to release all her past job applications and personnel records in order to settle her Native American heritage. Read full article > >

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Scott Brown pushes Elizabeth Warren on Native American issue

It wasn’t too hard for the Fish and Wildlife Service to decide the fate of 92 freshwater snails, or 17 dragonflies or, indeed more than 500 species over the past year. But when it comes to the dunes sagebrush lizard , trouble looms. Read full article > >

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Endangered species truce hangs in the balance

The UK has seen a dramatic change in the weather in the past few days, changing from drought warnings to flood alerts.

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VIDEO: From drought to flood in one week

North Wales Police are the only Welsh force to see an overall rise in crime over the past year with burglaries up 22%.

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Crime up in north, down elsewhere

Health insurance giant WellPoint is the latest target of an increasingly aggressive campaign to force disclosure of corporate political and lobbying expenditures, including payments to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has become more active in elections over the past decade. Read full article > >

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WellPoint is focus of aggressive effort to force political spending disclosures

Tesco unveils details of a plan to invest £1bn to try to improve its UK business, as it announces a 5.3% rise in profits in the past financial year.

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Tesco to spend £1bn on UK revamp