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US Senators strike deal to avert default and end government shutdown, Obama urges House of Representatives to approve it. Owner of Grangemouth oil refinery to keep it shut in dispute with union. Russian scientists retrieve chunks of meteorite from bottom of lake. Presented by Ritula Shah.

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