They are keepers of an evolving rebellion as well as law and order in Libya’s second largest city.

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In the Cradle of Libya’s Uprising, the Rebels Learn to Govern Themselves

It’s the end of an era for Japan: China has now surpassed it to become the second largest economy in the world, with Japan dropping to the number three spot. Japan’s economy shrunk at a 1.1 percent annual rate in the final quarter of 2010, a period…

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China Ousts Japan as World’s Second Economy

A group of climate change campaigners who planned to shut down the UK’s second largest power station are given community orders.

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Power plant protesters sentenced

The Irish government looks set to end up holding a large majority stake in AIB, the country’s second largest bank.

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Irish State ‘to get stake in AIB’