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7:06 pm (6 minutes ago)
American Marie Colvin of the UK's Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik are among 60 people killed as Syria intensifies its clampdown.
6:57 pm (15 minutes ago)
Cherie Blair has started legal proceedings over phone hacking, her solicitor confirms.
6:43 pm (29 minutes ago)
A man is charged with murdering a clergyman at his South Gloucestershire vicarage and a retired teacher in Worcestershire.
5:02 pm (2 hours ago)
Search teams in Italy find eight more bodies in the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia which capsized on 13 January as the inquiry spreads.
1:16 pm (6 hours ago)
A former nightclub bouncer is jailed for a minimum of 35 years for murdering pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender two weeks before she was due to give birth.
5:16 pm (an hour ago)
Nine men involved in the UVF supergrass trial in Belfast are acquitted of the murder of UDA leader Tommy English.
5:37 pm (an hour ago)
A commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, kills 49 people and leaves at least 600 injured, officials say.
6:44 pm (28 minutes ago)
The Royal Navy selects South Korean firm Daewoo for a £452m deal to build four new fuel tankers.
5:04 pm (2 hours ago)
Fashion retailer Peacocks is sold out of administration to Edinburgh Woollen Mill, saving 6,000 jobs, but 3,100 staff will be made redundant.
6:24 pm (48 minutes ago)
Kennelling dogs suspected of being dangerous, cost at least £3.7m in 2010, according to figures given to BBC Newsnight.
3:36 pm (4 hours ago)
Filters will need to be installed in almost a million UK homes to combat TV interference likely to occur from new 4G mobile services.
6:44 pm (28 minutes ago)
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, pledges to "crush" racism in football at the launch of an anti-discrimination summit at Downing Street.
6:39 pm (33 minutes ago)
A new study comparing chromosomes in humans and rhesus monkeys suggests genetic decay of the male sex chromosome has all but ended.
1:27 pm (6 hours ago)
British actress Helena Bonham Carter is made a CBE by the Queen, two years on from playing her mother in Oscar-winning film The King's Speech.
12:01 am (19 hours ago)
The CBI calls on the government to give a £500m boost to business in the Budget through a series of "targeted and modest" tax cuts.
5:03 pm (2 hours ago)
Peugeot shares jump 12% after the carmaker confirms it is in talks about possible "co-operations and alliances".
3:14 pm (4 hours ago)
Labour leader Ed Miliband tells David Cameron he risks making NHS reform "his poll tax" - in noisy Commons clashes over the health bill.
2:19 pm (5 hours ago)
Video of the full session plus all the key points, analysis and reaction as David Cameron faced his weekly Commons grilling from MPs.
6:07 pm (an hour ago)
How the time of day can increase the risk of dying from an irregular heartbeat has been identified by researchers.
2:32 am (17 hours ago)
Fewer women than men suffering from a heart attack appear to experience chest pain symptoms, according to a study in the US.
6:00 pm (an hour ago)
Visa changes could see the UK's top universities and schools lose their appeal to international students, says a report.
3:03 pm (4 hours ago)
Private companies should be encouraged to take over and run state schools as profit-making enterprises under a "John Lewis-style" business model, a think tank suggests.
1:03 pm (6 hours ago)
A controversial anti-piracy agreement is to be referred to the EU's highest court due to concerns surrounding internet freedoms.
1:02 pm (6 hours ago)
File-sharing site Pirate Bay vows to carry on after the High Court lays the foundations for its closure.
10:38 am (9 hours ago)
A year on, modellers continue to provide daily forecasts of the likely spread of floating debris washed out into the Pacific by the Japanese Tohoku megatsunami.
Yesterday, 3:44 pm
Astronomers confirm the existence of a new class of planet - a "water-world" with a thick, steamy atmosphere.
5:02 pm (2 hours ago)
The average audience to have watched the Brits ceremony on ITV1 and catch-up channel ITV1+1 comes in at 6.2 million - the event's highest audience since 2005.
1:50 pm (5 hours ago)
Daniel Radcliffe's latest film The Woman In Black remains top of the UK and Ireland box office.
1:03 am (18 hours ago)
English has been the dominant global language for a century, but is it the language of the future? Jennifer Pak finds that for some in South East Asia, Mandarin Chinese is becoming increasingly important.
Yesterday, 11:44 am
Pressure to address the UK's binge drinking grows ever stronger, with a number of radical solutions being put forward to dry out the nation
6:53 pm (19 minutes ago)
Sergio Aguero is again the headline act as Manchester City seal an impressive win over holders Porto to reach the last 16 of the Europa League.
4:28 pm (3 hours ago)
Force India's Nico Hulkenberg sets the pace on the second day of the second pre-season test.
2:46 pm (4 hours ago)
Fans who missed out in last year's Olympic ballot are to be given the first chance to buy 40,000 seats for athletics when the last batch of one million tickets goes on sale in April.
3:18 pm (4 hours ago)
England will wait until the morning of the match to decide whether Ravi Bopara is fit to play in Thursday's opening Twenty20 international against Pakistan.
6:51 pm (22 minutes ago)
A Harrogate teacher who felt under pressure to get good exam results set himself on fire in the school car park, an inquest hears.
6:47 pm (25 minutes ago)
Two of Baby Peter's social workers committed a "serious error of judgement" during an incident which saw him "disappear" for 12 days, a tribunal hears.
12:11 pm (7 hours ago)
The tax authorities deny claims that Rangers Football Club is being treated unfairly over its tax debts.
4:55 pm (2 hours ago)
Police investigating the murder of an 80-year-old woman in her isolated Perthshire cottage say private CCTV footage could hold vital clues.
3:27 pm (4 hours ago)
The alleged commander of the Continuity IRA in mid-Ulster refused to answer police questions about the murder of Constable Stephen Carroll, a court hears.
4:55 pm (2 hours ago)
Nineteen Peacocks stores in Northern Ireland are to close with the loss of more than 250 jobs.
6:48 pm (24 minutes ago)
The Welsh government says it is trying to retrieve public funding from race-relations charity All Wales Ethnic Minority Association (Awema) as opponents accuse ministers of failing to answer questions.
4:19 pm (3 hours ago)
Tributes are paid to the Liberal Democrat peer and former MP Lord Emlyn Hooson, who has died, aged 86.
6:25 pm (48 minutes ago)
Ethiopian and Somali troops capture Baidoa, a strategic stronghold of al-Shabab Islamist militants, as the UN approves extra African Union troops for Somalia.
6:50 pm (22 minutes ago)
South Sudan expels the head of a Chinese and Malaysian-owned oil firm following its investigation into Khartoum's "theft" of oil worth $815m (£518m).
3:39 pm (4 hours ago)
At least six people are killed and dozens injured in Afghanistan as protests spread over the burning of the Koran at a US airbase near Kabul.
1:19 pm (6 hours ago)
Australia's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigns amid widespread reports of a leadership tussle between him and Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
6:11 pm (an hour ago)
Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is released after two days of questioning over an alleged prostitution ring.
10:41 am (9 hours ago)
Europe's top human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe, urges Germany to end the practice of surgically castrating sex offenders.
1:33 am (18 hours ago)
Five taxi-drivers are shot dead as they wait for fares in the Mexican city of Monterrey, in an attack that is being blamed on extortion gangs.
2:53 am (16 hours ago)
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had cancer last year, says he will have to undergo another operation to remove a small lesion.
5:02 pm (2 hours ago)
A trial verdict for Egyptian ex-President Hosni Mubarak, accused of ordering the killing of protesters in the revolution that ousted him, is set for 2 June.
8:18 am (11 hours ago)
Vast trails of seven-million-year-old fossilised footprints reveal the "social structure" of prehistoric elephants, say scientists.
6:26 pm (47 minutes ago)
US President Barack Obama proposes a cut in corporate tax and an end to tax loopholes, as part of his election-year strategy on the economy.
Yesterday 11:18 pm (20 hours ago)
A Los Angeles teacher has been intimidated by jail staff, his lawyer says, as he pleaded not guilty to 23 counts of child molestation.
7:10 pm (2 minutes ago)
A commuter train crash in Buenos Aires
12:36 pm (7 hours ago)
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9:16 am (10 hours ago)
Protests by people angry at the burning of Koran
Monday, 3:40 pm
Rapid thaw on the River Danube in Serbia
Yesterday, 12:16 pm
24 hours of news photos: 21 February
Monday, 12:35 am
Brazil's colourful carnival parades in Rio
Monday, 12:06 am
Mumbai in the 1970s and 80s
Friday, February 17th, 6:13 pm
Photos from around the world
Thursday, March 24th, 11:54 am
MPs are holding an opposition day debate on the publication of the NHS Risk Register.
4:12 pm (3 hours ago)
James Corden told Radio 5 live how he had to interrupt Adele as she was giving her speech so that Blur could begin their set.
6:57 pm (15 minutes ago)
Tributes have been paid to Marie Colvin, the highly respected American Sunday Times reporter, following her death in the Syrian city of Homs.
6:07 pm (an hour ago)
The wife of a British photographer working in Homs has said that she believed he had been killed when she heard news that two western journalists had died in the city.
2:13 pm (5 hours ago)
A major exercise testing security and emergency services in the event of a terror attack during the Olympics and Paralympics is taking place.
4:55 am (14 hours ago)
Blues giants including Mick Jagger, and B.B. King, played the blues at special concert held in the White House.
12:01 am (19 hours ago)
The Royal Ballet is hosting an exhibition to showcase the career of Monica Mason, who is set to retire in July after 54 years with the Royal Ballet.
6:56 am (12 hours ago)
Tsunami devastated city in Japan is restoring pictures retrieved from rubble and returning it to owners.
1:40 pm (6 hours ago)
The BBC's John Maguire goes behind-the-scenes at a costume warehouse, and takes a look at some Oscar-nominated designs.
Yesterday, 5:19 pm
What type of film do Oscar voters like best?
10:39 am (9 hours ago)
How much Christianity is hidden in British society?
1:53 am (17 hours ago)
Test yourself on fashion faux pas
4:58 pm (2 hours ago)
Is it better for us to sleep in four-hour chunks?
1:51 am (17 hours ago)
The story behind the winning World Press Photo
Yesterday, 5:56 pm
How Christchurch is recovering from its devastating earthquake
3:20 pm (4 hours ago)
David Cameron is watched by glum Liberal Democrats on NHS
8:45 am (10 hours ago)
Science of piano playing mapped by Hollywood 3D techniques
1:18 am (18 hours ago)
BBC's Andrew Harding reports from Somalia's front line

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