A confidential report seen by the BBC shows the government was warned of the potential risks of the MoD’s radioactive waste decades ago.

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Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs “willfully violated” federal law by holding weekly “huddles” through which there was at least the potential for the firm’s analysts to offer Goldman’s own traders and favored clients a preview of the firm’s investment research, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Thursday. Read full article > >

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Goldman fined $22M for ‘willfully’ violating law on information-sharing, SEC says

Business Secretary Vince Cable is concerned about the potential impact of plans to cap tax relief on charitable donations to universities.

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If cost overruns were eliminated along with the modernization of already flawed — and expensive — weapons, perhaps the Pentagon would not be facing the potential sequester of funds. Of course, that’s very easy to say but very hard to do. Two recent reports make that clear. Read full article > >

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A bomb found in Newry, County Down, contained a significant amount of explosives that had the potential to kill, police say.

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Newry bomb ‘could have killed’

The court’s decision in the new case holds the potential to undo an accommodation on affirmative action in higher education reached by the court in 2003.

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Justices to Hear Case on Affirmative Action in Higher Education

Smartphone users could see a future of fewer dropped calls and zippier video and music downloads because of a government decision Friday to auction off a scarce resource: airwaves. The massive sale of beachfront-property spectrum is expected to raise as much as $25 billion and help pay for a payroll tax cut. Providing the airwaves to private companies has the potential to enhance the services of existing wireless providers such as Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless, or even create new competitors. Read full article > >

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FCC spectrum auction to fund payroll tax cut, public-safety network

A 2008 email informing James Murdoch of the potential scope of phone hacking at the News of the World was deleted in an IT upgrade last year, lawyers say.

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Republicans on Capitol Hill are increasingly worried about the potential of a Newt Gingrich presidential nomination, fearful that the former House speaker’s reputation for volatility could drive away independent voters and jeopardize GOP prospects for controlling Congress in 2013. Just a few months ago, Gingrich was an afterthought in the campaign. But his sudden rise over the past month has given pause to congressional Republicans who thought President Obama’s troubles with the economy could firm up their majority in the House and a new majority in the Senate. Read full article > >

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The fees for dealing with the administration of Christmas hamper firm Farepak exceed the potential compensation for its victims.

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There are too many “coasting” schools which do not push their pupils to reach their potential, says the annual report from education watchdog Ofsted.

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NASA’s most high-stakes, ambitious planetary mission in decades is scheduled to launch next week with a goal right out of science fiction: to learn whether Mars was, or ever could be, home to extraterrestrial life. If the unmanned Mars Science Laboratory lifts off and travels a 354 million-mile path to Mars, it will lower to the surface a sedan-size rover called Curiosity, which has the potential to change our understanding of the cosmos. Read full article > >

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NASA Mars mission to test planet for ability to sustain life

BEIRUT — Dozens of soldiers and security forces were gunned down by suspected army defectors in southern Syria, a deadly ambush that comes as President Bashar Assad increasingly appears unable to manage the crisis, activists said Tuesday. Monday’s hours-long clash in the southern province of Daraa came on a particularly bloody day in Syria, with as many as 90 people killed across the country. The brazen attack by the army defectors suggested a new confidence among troops who have sided with the protesters and highlighted the potential for an armed confrontation to escalate. Read full article > >

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The United States condemned the airstrike by Sudan and what it called other “negative developments” that increase the potential for hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan.

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South Sudan Accuses Sudan of Bombing Civilian Camp

Some commentators seeing Lucas Papademos emerging as the potential head of the interim coalition as talks resumed on Thursday.

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