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Apple 'in talks' to buy headphone maker and music-streaming provider, Beats, for $3.2bn.
Chinese and Vietnamese ships smash into each other in a confrontation over territory
Why Russia is off the US's favoured trading nation list
Is French economist Thomas Picketty right to argue higher taxes are the way to fix it?
The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Matthew Davies is in Johannesburg to gauge the mood of voters.
The crisis deepens in Ukraine and western leaders discuss more sanctions.
President Obama calls for new rules to protect Americans' data
The World Health Organisation says we are facing a world antibiotic crisis
Will China overtake the US as the world's largest economy this year?
Two US senators tell us why they think sanctions against Russia should be increased.
A fungus spreading across the world threatens global banana crops.
Barclays shareholders voice their displeasure at board plans for pay and bonuses
One year on we revisit Rana Plaza factory to ask what's changed in the retail industry
Football giant Manchester United sacks its manager David Moyes
Why are some Ukrainian banks being thrown out of the peninsula?
Twenty per cent of Chinese farmland is contaminated with toxic chemicals.
After a day of talks there is finally a deal on Ukraine.
Rescue workers continue to search the capsized ferry off the coast of South Korea.
At a defence expo in Singapore where Ukrainian and Russian delegates compete for sales.
The EU and the US say they will impose 'further costs' on Russia over Ukraine
We're live in the Indian Himalayan state of Sikkim, where voting begins
An expert study questions the efficacy of the stockpiled flu drug
Rory Cellan-Jones asks whether the heartbleed security bug has been mishandled.
Jennifer Cheng and Ben Gilbert discuss dream jobs, gay marriage and entrepreneurialism
India's nine-phase, five-week general election gets underway
Afghans prepare to go to the polls; garment workers in Cambodia collapse en masse.
America is under fire over a US-funded social network for Cuban citizens called ZunZuneo
High frequency trading is under the spotlight as author's new book sparks row
Did General Motors put profit before safety?
The Japanese government is increasing sales tax by three per cent.
