Business tycoon Richard Branson urges the government to promote economic growth by supporting small firms in the UK.

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Branson calls for businesses plan

Prominent atheist Richard Dawkins says he supports the plan to put a Bible in every English school.

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Dawkins backs school Bible plan

The company’s audit committee said Richard Schulze, also the chain’s founder, failed to report an inappropriate relationship between the former chief executive and an employee.

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Chairman of Best Buy, Richard Schulze, to Step Down

Richard G. Lugar, one of the Senate’s longest-serving members, lost a hard-fought Republican primary to Richard E. Mourdock, the Indiana state treasurer.

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Lugar Loses Primary Challenge in Indiana

Dick Lugar will lose Indiana's GOP Senate primary to Richard Mourdock, CNN projects. Mourdock had the tea party's support against Lugar, a foreign policy expert.

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Longest-serving Senate Republican falls

State treasurer Richard Mourdock projected winner.

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Lugar Loses Indiana Senate Primary

Six-term Republican Senator Richard Lugar faces a serious primary challenge in Indiana’s, with a Tea Party-backed challenger leading many polls.

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Veteran senator in primary threat

TUCSON — Richard Carmona, the Democratic candidate for senator from Arizona, had a rough childhood in New York City. His Puerto Rican parents had drug and alcohol problems, and he was homeless for a time. He dropped out of high school and went to Vietnam, where he won two Purple Hearts and two Bronze Stars. Read full article > >

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Richard Carmona, former Bush surgeon general, best hope of turning Arizona blue, Democrats say

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is on a tour of the UK this week and the BBC’s transport correspondent Richard Westcott got a chance to look around it.

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VIDEO: In the cockpit of the Dreamliner

Mr. Sherman and his brother, Richard M. Sherman, wrote the scores for “Mary Poppins” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” and won two Academy Awards for their music.

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Robert B. Sherman, Songwriter for Disney, Dies at 86

The writer of some of Disney’s most beloved songs, and humanity’s most persistent earworms , Robert Sherman, has died at the age of 86. Sherman was the co-writer of “It’s a Small World (After All),” “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and “A Spoonful of Sugar,” among other hits (his brother Richard was his songwriting partner). Read full article > >

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‘It’s a Small World’ writer Robert Sherman dies at 86

Sir Richard Branson wins the right to control richardbranson.xxx after an Australian man was ruled to have registered the domain “in bad faith”.

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Branson wins porn domain battle

For Lifetime’s “Elizabeth & Richard: A Love Story.”

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Lohan May Play Elizabeth Taylor

President Obama introduced Richard Cordray as the new director of a federal consumer watchdog agency, telling workers that they now have the full tools available under the law to protect ordinary Americans from Wall Street’s predatory financial abuses of recent years. Read full article > >

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Obama visits consumer watchdog agency, introduces Cordray as new director

Economist Tim Harford looks at 2011 in numbers with the BBC’s Richard Westcott.

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VIDEO: Looking back at 2011 in numbers