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British television presenter and newspaper columnist Jeremy Clarkson has told journalists in Sydney, Australia, that UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is a "one-eyed Scottish idiot".
The remark caused outrage amongst Scottish Labour politicians with some calling for the BBC to sack him. Clarkson has since apologised.
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U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt has ruled that same-sex marriages must be treated the same as straight marriages by authorities when it comes to healthcare and benefits rights. He also said that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional.
The judge was ruling in a specific administrative dispute process, so the judgment does not set a wider precedent.
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The troubled Royal Bank of Scotland, now 68% controlled by the UK government, has fired seven non-executive directors from the pre-credit crunch era.
The bank is about to report losses of £28 billion and has been under fire for plans to pay bonuses to the trading staff who generated them.
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Baugur, the Icelandic retail giant, has failed to get bankruptcy protection from its creditors at home and has placed its British arm in administration.
The group, which owns or has stakes in a large number of British High Street famous names, 
is being pursued for the equivalent of £1 billion in Iceland by the recently nationalized Landsbanki.
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