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Coroner raises rail safety fears

A coroner raises ongoing safety fears as an inquest jury blames a points failure for the Potters Bar train crash.

UK soldiers push to clear Taliban

Hundreds of UK soldiers launch an operation to clear Taliban insurgents from a key stronghold in southern Afghanistan.

BP boss scaling back oil effort

The incoming BP chief executive has said it is time to scale back some parts of the oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico.

Prescott Iraq intelligence doubts

The intelligence on Iraq's weapons threat was "not very substantial", former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott says.