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Guardian Money/Insurance

• Comparison sites warned over misleading quotes
  Regulator says they must treat customers fairly and give correct information or risk crackdown
• Watchdog warning to 'misleading' comparison websites
  FSA says some sites could be misleading consumers with information that is incorrect or out of date
• Protection policyholders urged to sue
  Lawfirm plans action on behalf of thousands of customers mis-sold payment protection insurance
• Huma Qureshi: Ten per cent a year for a happier life
  Huma Qureshi: If you are in your thirties contributing £100 a month or less, your pension will be worth a pittance
• Managing to overcome rack and ruin
  Jessie Hewitson uncovers a shocking tale of neglect at an unsafe, uninsured, leaky block of flats

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Know Your Money Insurance

• Insurance premiums may yet rise
  The plateau recently observed in insurance premiums may not last, an expert advises.
• Female car insurance reflects safer drivers
  Women drivers are safer, therefore female car insurance is cheaper, says Sheilas Wheels.
• Budget 2008: What it means for your money
  Following this weeks 2008 Budget announcement, consumers could find their finances affected in a number of different ways.
• Animals cost car insurance companies
  Vehicle incidents involving wild animals have a notable impact upon the car insurance industry, research indicates.
• Overseas drivers should check car insurance
  It is important that motorists check what cover their car insurance provides while driving overseas, it has been claimed.

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Reuters Banking and Financial

• Iraqi factions agree to end Baghdad fighting
  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite factions on Saturday reached a deal to end fighting between militia and security forces in the Baghdad bastion of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that has killed hundreds of people, officials said.

  

  
  
• Sudan says rebel attack on Khartoum defeated
  KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Darfur rebels fought Sudanese troops in a suburb of Khartoum on Saturday in a bid to seize power, but the government said the attack on the capital had been defeated.

  

  
  
• Hezbollah gunmen start withdrawl from Beirut
  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah on Saturday began withdrawing gunmen from Beirut and handed control of the streets to the Lebanese army, after seizing much of the city in gunbattles with supporters of the U.S.-backed government.

  

  
  
• Myanmar holds poll despite post-cyclone chaos
  YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar held a rare election to approve a new army-drafted constitution on Saturday while many of the 1.5 million survivors of a devastating cyclone waited in vain for a concerted aid effort to bring them food and medicine.

  

  
  
• U.S. looks set to offer Israel powerful new radar
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration appears set to offer Israel a powerful radar system that could greatly boost Israeli defenses against enemy ballistic missiles while tying it directly into a growing U.S. missile shield.

  

  
  

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Top Gear

• F1 Turkish GP preview
  BBC Five Live's Maurice Hamilton reports from the frontline with a sideways look at Formula One qualifying
  
  
  
• Grand Alp'
  Alpina is back racing, with this awesome 6-Series, after a 30-year absence
• French correction
  Some 'enlightened' souls have criticised Sebastien Loeb for his 'insult to real males' appearance. Not very 21st century
  
  
  
• F1 Turkish GP preview
  BBC Five Live's Maurice Hamilton reports from the frontline with a sideways look at Formula One and Super Aguri's demise
• Mercedes CLC
  'If Mercedes was shagging your girlfriend behind your back, would that be OK just because you had no idea?'
  
  
  

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