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The Conservatives are dropping their pledge to match Labour's spending plans for the year 2010/11, says David Cameron.

Pictures from Cornish Pirates' narrow 25-23 National One defeat to league leaders Leeds on Sunday at Camborne.

New Approach wins the Irish Champion Stakes to complete a Group One double for trainer Jim Bolger at Leopardstown.

John McCain speaks at the Republican conv 2130 BBC North America editor Justin Webb:A strange part of th speech now where he’s talking about changing Washington – does he think President Bush has been a good thing or a bad thing? It’s one of the questions he’s going to have to address in the speec. It’s almost as if the enemy has been in power in Washington for the last eight years. ention.

Great Britain's women start their hockey campaign with a 5-1 defeat by Olympic champions Germany.

Will Bosnia hold together as the arrest of Radovan Karadzic fuels Serb nationalist sentiment, asks the BBC's Nick Thorpe.

US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama meets the Iraqi prime minister on his first visit to Baghdad.

A weekly guide to the 2008 US presidential election, in words and pictures.

BBC political correspondent Iain Watson examines why Nick Clegg wants to position himself as a tax cutter.

Jim Muir looks at the issues around the failure to achieve a deadline for scaling down US forces

Asda and Tesco announce price promotions as shoppers shift to no-frills stores in response to tough times.

A look at what's making the headlines in Friday's morning newspapers.

Latest: Chelsea want Robinho and other rumours.

No single drug will be enough to treat all the victims of a global pandemic of the H5N1 bird flu, research suggests.

After two years of artillery duels, Egypt launched an audacious surprise attack across the Suez Canal on Yom Kippur.

School and college building projects in Northern Ireland are criticised for not giving best value for money.

The BBC's Paul Reynolds says that Annapolis is the end of the beginning for new Middle East peace talks, not necessarily the beginning of the end.

Is French President Nicolas Sarkozy echoing Britain's Margaret Thatcher in a showdown with unions, asks Hugh Schofield.

A web pioneer tells BBC Scotland he believes the country could be at the forefront of the "next big thing" for the internet.

Three UK soldiers are killed by US friendly fire in Afghanistan where close quarter fighting is intense and the risks are high.

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