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The British government is cutting nearly half a million public sector jobs over the next four years as part of a $130 billion cut in spending. Finance Minister George Osborne confirmed the cuts Wednesday in a widely anticipated announcement, saying the drastic budget cuts were the best way to reduce Britain's burgeoning debt.

One of the traditions of soccer, or football, as they call it in the UK, is that of the "giant-killer," the small team that defeats much more powerful rivals to reach the later stages of the competition for the Football Association Cup. All the big clubs you might have heard of, like Liverpool and Arsenal, play in their own league competitions with other major rivals, but they also play in the FA Cup, in which all the members of the Football Association, big and small, compete. Saturday, one of the smallest members, Crawley Town, is set to play the biggest and most famous sporting club in the world, Manchester United.

Financial officials will be taking a close look at Ireland's broken banking system. A big part of their mission is to restore confidence in the bond market and stop Ireland's malaise from spreading to other eurozone nations.

Residents of the Paterson, N.J., community say nearly everyone there knows someone killed in the Israel-Hamas war.

The scene is a safe house somewhere in Britain. And the players are British intelligence agents, diplomats, and one lean, white-haired Libyan man named Moussa Koussa. He's Libya's foreign minister, a senior member of Moammar Gadhafi's embattled regime. Koussa flew to England Wednesday, and the British say he's resigned his post and defected — and that they've spent the day debriefing him.

They're partying inside Buckingham Palace Friday evening. Prince William and Kate Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, were married Friday.

Paul Stanley, lead singer of KISS, looks back on the heavy metal band's legacy and talks about retiring from touring at the end of 2019.

Sometimes, when walking Brooklyn's streets, it doesn't feel as if its literary past is haunting. Rather, its literary soul is still alive and pulsating. Brooklyn is a world unto itself and a writer's enclave. Journalist and critic Evan Hughes has written a literary biography of the leafy borough.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with human rights lawyer Zaha Hassan on the Hamas attacks in Israel and Israeli air strikes.

Dylan Dethier took a year off between high school and college for an unusual quest: He wanted to play a round of golf in each of the 48 contiguous states. His new book, 18 in America, chronicles that year, and he joins NPR's Scott Simon on the putt-putt course to talk about it.