The Vatican said the first phase of its preliminary investigation, under chief prosecutor Nicola Picardi, has ended.

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But Richard Hawkes, chief executive of disability charity Scope, said the decision to phase out the fund was "bemusing".

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Nokia's imaging chief Damian Dinning has released a paper explaining the "second phase" of PureView technology that's included in the new Lumia 920.

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The IMF chief, to her credit, was early in the latest phase of the crisis to call for greater bank recapitalization, which would involve an admission of losses and therefore more political and financial pain.

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