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Updated: 10 hours 31 min ago

Labour MP died of natural causes

10 hours 42 min ago
Police say Labour MP Ashok Kumar, who was found dead at his home on Monday, died from natural causes.

Roma rights 'violated' by Croatia

10 hours 55 min ago
A top European court says Croatia discriminated against Roma pupils by segregating them from other pupils at school.

Pope confirms 2010 UK visit dates

10 hours 58 min ago
Pope Benedict XVI will visit the UK in September, in the first papal visit to the country since that of John Paul II in 1982.

TV shows Mubarak 'is recovering'

10 hours 59 min ago
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is shown in TV pictures sitting up and talking to doctors 10 days after surgery.

Deadly bomb attacks in Iraqi town

11 hours 14 min ago
Eight people have been killed and 11 injured by two bombs in the central Iraqi town of Musayyab, police say.

Pirates free N Korean tanker crew

12 hours 5 min ago
Somali pirates have released a chemical tanker and its North Korean crew of 28, maritime officials say.

Kidnapped boy found in Pakistan

12 hours 10 min ago
The family of a five-year-old British boy who was kidnapped while in Pakistan say they are "ecstatic" after he is found.

Gaddafi says split Nigeria in two

12 hours 22 min ago
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says Nigeria should be split into two to avoid further bloodshed between Muslims and Christians.

Blood protest against Thai leader

12 hours 23 min ago
Thailand's red-shirts splash blood under the gates of Government House in a third day of protests to oust the government.

PM defends stance on Omagh bomb

12 hours 26 min ago
Downing Street defends its refusal to share intelligence over the 1998 Omagh bomb in which 29 people died.

Sri Lanka puts ex-army chief on trial

12 hours 33 min ago
Sri Lanka's ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka appears before a military court charged with participating in politics while in uniform.

Russia Olympic plans criticised

12 hours 41 min ago
Russia has failed to consider the environmental impact of construction for the 2014 Winter Olympics, the UN says.

Civilian killed in Kashmir attack

12 hours 43 min ago
Suspected militants open fire in a market in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing at least one civilian, officials say.

Twitter embeds itself in the web

12 hours 49 min ago
Twitter announces its @anywhere technology that will allow websites to embed its services into their web pages.

Live - Cheltenham Festival

12 hours 54 min ago
Go Native is the favourite in Tuesday's big race, the Champion Hurdle, as National Hunt's showpiece meeting gets under way.

Six MPs' expenses appeals fail

12 hours 56 min ago
Six MPs appealing against a ruling that they repay expenses claims have been told they must pay them back.

Day in pictures

12 hours 59 min ago
Eye-catching images from around the world

Expats lose pension freeze case

13 hours 4 min ago
More than half a million UK pensioners living overseas will continue to have their pensions frozen after a court decision.

Going bald young cuts prostate cancer risk, study finds

13 hours 7 min ago
Men who start going bald at a young age are up to 45% less likely to get prostate cancer in later life, a study has found.

'Milestone' for wave energy plans

13 hours 19 min ago
Seven companies are to push forward plans to generate 1.2 gigawatts of electricity from wave and tidal power.