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But now with the addition broadcast on Radio 4, here's Kate Aide.

Today the British are coming.

Overseas universities prepare for an avalanche of applications from UK students.

Osama bin Laden's plumber on how property prices have plummeted in the place where the

Al-Qaeda leader was shot. We find out why it's money rather than football or

regional independence dominating conversation between Madrid and Barcelona.

And as Parliament in Berlin approves more aid for the Eurozone's poorest member, we learn it isn't

easy being a Greek in Germany. The Indian economy has become one of the most successful in the world.

In recent years it's gone from strength to strength, thanks to a large labour force, huge foreign

investment and a growing middle class with money to spend.

So that's partly why there's increasing disquiet about Britain's continuing aid programme to

India.

The annual grant of 280 million pounds is nine times

higher than that given by any other single donor country. The news that India's

decided not to buy Britain's Typhoon jet,

preferring a French alternative, has led to further negative headlines about the aid budget.

The government, though, is unrepentant,

believing that if Britain is serious about its contribution

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