The approval of Culture Minister Linda Fabiani was required to designate the Australian Government and Te Papa Tongarewa as bodies to whom material from the collections could be transferred.

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While expressing his delight about Fifa's approval, secretary of state for culture, media and sport Andy Burnham criticised the rigid stances of the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish authorities.

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Novartis, for instance, recently won FDA approval for FlucelVax, which uses animal cell culture instead of traditional manufacturing that uses chicken eggs, a faster production process that can hasten stockpiling.

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As for the FSA, there is an apparent contradiction between its lecturing of Barclays to clean up its culture earlier this year and the approval it gave for the promotion of Mr del Missier to be Barclays' number two.

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