Today’s Florida primary features the largest and most diverse electorate of any contest to date in the Republican presidential primary fight. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney enters election day with a clear polling lead although former House Speaker Newt Gingrich pledged this morning that “ I’m not going to lose big in Florida .” Read full article > >

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Five counties to watch in the Florida primary

The amount of non-mortgage borrowing held by consumers fell in December by the largest amount on record, £377m, the Bank of England says.

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Record fall in personal borrowing

And the largest in 13 years.

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Ford Posts Profit for Third Year

The automaker’s earnings for 2011 were the largest in 13 years after a one-time gain in the fourth quarter.

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Ford Posts Third-Straight Annual Profit

A Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi women and children pleaded guilty Monday to dereliction of duty in a deal that will mean a maximum of three months confinement and end the largest and longest-running criminal case against U.S. troops to emerge from the Iraq War.

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Marine Accepts Plea Deal in Iraqi Civilian Deaths

Spanish bank BBVA tells the BBC it is switching its 110,000 staff to use Google’s cloud-computing software in the largest deal of its kind.

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Bank signs up for cloud computing

Astronomers have found the largest known galaxy cluster in the ancient Universe, calling it “El Gordo” – Spanish for “the Fat One”.

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Galaxy cluster is named ‘fat one’

MOSCOW — Few of the Russians who intend to turn out Saturday to take part in what could be the largest push for democracy here in decades expect an early Christmas present. They do not voice confidence that their demands — an end to corruption, a more open political life — will be met overnight. And it is not yet clear what direction the new activists will take in the future. Read full article > >

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On eve of new Russian protest, movement remains fluid

The attack was one of the largest attacks yet on Syrian security forces by a growing armed insurgency.

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Syria Army Defectors Said to Kill 27 Soldiers in Coordinated Assault

The owner of the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, where 29 men died in an explosion last year, has agreed to pay $209 million in civil and criminal penalties and promised to make major safety improvements to its mines, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. The deal between the federal government and Alpha Natural Resources, which acquired the Upper Big Branch coal field when it bought out Massey Energy in June, is the largest settlement in a criminal investigation of a mine disaster in U.S. history, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Read full article > >

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W.Va. coal mine to pay historic $209M settlement in blast that killed 29 miners

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The owner of a West Virginia mine where 29 men died in the deadliest U.S. coalfield accident in decades will pay $210 million, the largest settlement ever in a federal investigation of a mine disaster, prosecutors said Tuesday. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said the deal would compensate victims’ families, pay fines and improve underground safety. It also does not prevent the future prosecutions of individuals on criminal charges in the April 2010 blast. Read full article > >

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US Attorney: W.Va. mine disaster yields $210M settlement, allows individual prosecutions

MOSCOW — Police hauled away about 300 protesters Monday night after thousands of demonstrators gathered near a metro station chanting “Russia Without Putin” and “We Need New Elections.” The protest, the largest opposition gathering in years, follows a poorer-than-expected showing by Prime Minister Vladi­mir V. Putin’s ruling party in Sunday’s parliamentary election . Read full article > >

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Russian elections spark protests by opposition, Putin supporters

The last U.S. troops to occupy Camp Victory, once one of the largest and most high-profile American military bases in Iraq, left Friday afternoon as the Iraqi government assumed control of the sprawling complex near Baghdad's main airport.

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Leaders of the largest county in the US state of Alabama vote to file for a multi-billion dollar bankruptcy, expected to be the costliest in US municipal history.

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Alabama county faces bankruptcy

Alabama’s most populous county filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history Wednesday, years after being plunged more than $4 billion into debt by a corruption-riddled sewer project.

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