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McGuinness 'forgot deathbed talk'

2 hours 14 min ago
Martin McGuinness says he forgot a deathbed conversation he had with the priest suspected of being involved in the 1972 Claudy bombing.

Meet the Strictly Stars

2 hours 20 min ago
Meet the Strictly Come Dancing Stars of 2010.

Chote set to head Budget office

2 hours 23 min ago
Economist and former journalist Robert Chote is to become the new head of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

Assembly post tackles trafficking

2 hours 37 min ago
An anti-human trafficking coordinator is to be appointed in Wales for the first time to tackle the problem.

Planes nearly collide over London

2 hours 44 min ago
A business jet and a passenger plane carrying 232 people came close to a mid-air collision over London in 2009, a report reveals.

Yemeni soldier killed in ambush

2 hours 58 min ago
Gunmen open fire on soldiers in southern Yemen, killing at least one and wounding others.

Critical mass

3 hours 50 sec ago
How does the Catholic church endorse Britain’s only gay Mass?

Euro MPs condemn France over Roma

3 hours 3 min ago
Euro MPs call on France to suspend its deportations of Roma (Gypsies), as Paris seeks co-operation from Romania.

Air Zimbabwe pilots in pay strike

3 hours 5 min ago
Striking pilots at Air Zimbabwe have began talks with management over a pay dispute that has grounded the carrier's flights.

Met officer charged with assault

3 hours 7 min ago
A Metropolitan Police officer is charged with assaulting a prisoner in west London.

UK interest rates remain at 0.5%

3 hours 12 min ago
The Bank of England keeps UK interest rates on hold at a record low of 0.5% for the 18th consecutive month.

Concern over jobless households

3 hours 24 min ago
Charities working with children and young people in Wales raise concerns about the number of households where nobody works.

Clegg seeks to calm cuts anxiety

3 hours 27 min ago
Nick Clegg has sought to calm fears over the impact of spending cuts, insisting they will be spread over four years not implemented immediately.

On foot patrol to deter the Taliban

3 hours 29 min ago
Quentin Sommerville goes on foot patrol with some of the men of the US Army's 101st Airborne division near the village of Zerok in Afghanistan.

Vulnerable to public sector cuts?

3 hours 31 min ago
Find out how resilient areas of England might be

Ed Miliband tops August donations

3 hours 32 min ago
Leadership hopeful Ed Miliband raised the most money of any of the Labour contenders during August, Electoral Commission figures show.

Kate Silverton and pitfalls of trampolining on TV

3 hours 38 min ago
Kate Silverton sees the pitfalls of trampolining on TV

Big toll in Russian market bomb

3 hours 45 min ago
At least 15 people are killed and more than 60 wounded in a bomb attack in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, local officials say.

NHS IT costs to be cut by £700m

3 hours 45 min ago
The government has announced £700m of savings in the national IT programme for the NHS in England, cutting the overall cost to £11.4bn.

SA murder rate shows sharp fall

3 hours 50 min ago
The murder rate has fallen by 8.6% over the past year in South Africa, the latest statistics show.