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Some big changes look to be on the way at Liverpool under new boss Brendan Rodgers.

General Motors Company's (NYSE: GM) dual European brands, Opel and Vauxhall, released Wednesday the first teases of the new ADAM city car, which seems to have been designed to compete directly with the popular Fiat 500 and BMW's Mini.

Chelsea's big-spending summer looks set to continue, with two big-money moves imminent.

More animals were used in scientific procedures in Britain in 2011 than 2010, with particular increases in the use of cats, pigs, birds and fish as testing subjects, according to new numbers from the UK government.

Francois Hollande, was mocked by his own French media for looking like a ?dwarf? while standing amongst Her Majesty?s Coldstream Guards regiment during his first official visit to London.

As authorities continue to investigate the death of Eva Rausing, her husband, Hans Kristian Rausing has been taken into custody in connection with the homicide, as well as on drug charges

He's the ultimate rock and roll bon vivant and a survivor of heroin and hardcore partying, but fifty years after the debut of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards remains one thing above all: an extraordinary musician.

Police have confirmed that one of the UK's richest women, Eva Rausing, was found dead in her London home this week. Reports are that her husband was arrested in connection.

Manchester United may be closing in on another big-money purchase.

Chumbawamba got knocked down and they're not getting up again. The British alternative music band made the announcement on their website, Chumba.com.

British industrial data released Tuesday, while a slight improvement over the previous month's figures, can't hide the fact that the economy is still weak, experts say.

Rausing is believed to have died of a drug overdose.

After a slow start under Brendan Rodgers, Liverpool could be set for a rush of transfer activity.

Chelsea look to be closing in on another big-money signing to add yet more creativity to their side.

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA), the largest U.S. aerospace manufacturer, said Tuesday it had reached a deal with Kuwaiti airplane leasing company ALAFCO to sell 20 Boeing 737 aircraft valued at $1.9 billion, its second big deal at the Farnborough Airshow in England.

In a survey of 500 financial service workers in the UK and U.S., a quarter said they would need to engage in illegal conduct to be successful, while 16 percent said they would commit a crime - insider trading - if they could get away with it.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York may have known as early as August 2007 that the setting of global benchmark interest rates was flawed. Following an inquiry with British banking group Barclays Plc (NYSE: BSC) in the spring of 2008, it shared proposals for reform of the system with British authorities.

Ex-Barclays boss Bob Diamond, who will still receive his salary and benefits worth in excess of £2 million, had given up the bonus payment voluntarily according to Barclays executive chairman Marcus Agius.

The Beatles and Rolling Stones were inadvertently stepping into a vacuum ? the biggest rock star in the world, Elvis Presley, was inducted into the army in 1962.

Seeking to resolve the territorial tensions in the South China Sea, the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Monday hammered out the key elements of a code of conduct in the region which has been at the heart of recent maritime confrontations between China and the other nations in the Pacific.

A supposed cheap shot was taken at the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, when a magazine cover was photoshopped to look like her teeth were rotting out of her mouth.The New Republic morphed Middelton's chompers into the American stereotype of Britons for a special politics and arts issue regarding the future of Britain- - clearly, the magazine doesn't think much of their former motherland's future or their dentition.