Three more quangos scrapped
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First Minister Rhodri Morgan announces that three more quangos will be axed after a review of unelected bodies in Wales.
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ACE Ltd., a Bermuda-based insurance company, announced on Thursday that it had terminated two executives and suspended three more unnamed employees in the wake of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzerâs probe into the bid-rigging practices in the
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The third cable, known as the Falcon cable, comes after breaks in two cables off the Mediterranean Sea coast on Wednesday.
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Andrew Flintoff and Dimitri Mascarenhas are ruled out of England's side for the third one-day international.
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The final one-day match between Pakistan and South Africa will be shifted after the Proteas declined to play in troubled Karachi for security reasons, an official said Wednesday.
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Plans for a new walkway to Jerusalem's holiest site are scrapped amid archaeological concerns, Israeli officials say.
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Watchdog maxes out bigwig ration Ofcom, the best-paid quango in all of Quangistan, has replaced one board member with two new ones, bumping its quota of directors to ten - the maximum allowable by its charter.â¦
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Buckingham Palace on Friday dismissed as &quot;irresponsible&quot; newspaper reports that a kidnap threat forced Britain&#39;s Prince Harry to cut short a trip to a polo pony farm in Argentina.
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A strike by London Underground which crippled tube services has been called off following peace talks.
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Further strikes planned for Scotland's rail network are suspended following talks.
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US symbol removed from list of threatened species.
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A report published by two right leaning think tanks attacks the number and cost of Britain's quangos.
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Passengers on British Airways endured a third successive day of travel disruption today as the airline cancelled seven round-trip flights.
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Sony's game unit is discontinuing two PlayStation 3 game machine models sold only in Japan to streamline its lineup and boost software development, a company official said Thursday.
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Three strikes that threatened to paralyse some of the UK's top airports are called off after a deal is reached.
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London - South African captain Graeme Smith has lost the toss against his West Indies counterpart Brian Lara, and the Proteas have been sent in to bat in their ICC Champions Trophy Pool B decider here on Saturday.
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By ROBBIE DINWOODIE CHIEF SCOTTISH POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT  A GBP14M computerisation project completed by Scottish Enterprise last year is to be scrapped in favour of a new system costing GBP7m, prompting an MSP to demand an investigation by ministers.