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In the News
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US takes over key mortgage firms
7 Sep 2008 at 8:12am
The US government announces plans for the takeover of failing mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
Caribbean lashed by Hurricane Ike
7 Sep 2008 at 7:32am
Thousands of people hunker down across the Caribbean as Hurricane Ike pounds the region, on course for Cuba.
Flood fears ease as rains lighten
7 Sep 2008 at 5:04am
Flood fears are easing as showers replace persistent rain across England and Wales and river levels stabilise.
Canadian PM calls snap election
7 Sep 2008 at 7:22am
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper calls an early election in a bid to strengthen his minority government.
Kandahar rocked by suicide blasts
7 Sep 2008 at 6:00am
Two suicide bomb blasts kill at least two people and injure 29 in a police station in the Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.
'£30m' to destroy cluster devices
7 Sep 2008 at 7:52am
The BBC learns that the MoD is to destroy explosives from its mothballed cluster bombs.
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