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A committee of MPs criticises the government after saying taxpayers have been left "bearing all the risk" from purchases of new trains worth £10.5bn.

The villagers who are losing out to sugarcane

Petrol could soon sell for less than £1 a litre thanks to the plummeting price of oil, motoring organisation the RAC has predicted.

* Investors snap up beaten-down shares but Wall St ends lower* European stocks rebound while Bund slips to record low yield* Ruble falls again after rate hike to 17 percent* Moscow stocks plunge; crude trades below $60 a barrel(Recasts headline, first paragraph; adds bullet point)By Herbert LashNEW YORK, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Oil prices pared losses and global equity markets eased on Tuesday in rolle

* Stocks rebound as investors snap up beaten-down shares* Ruble falls again after rate hike to 17 percent* Moscow stocks plunge, crude trades below $60 a barrel(Adds close of U.S. markets)By Herbert LashNEW YORK, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Oil prices pared losses and global equity markets partially rebounded on Tuesday in roller-coaster trading as investors snapped up beaten-down energy stocks and wagered

Online art sales boom, led by Chinese buyers