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2 hours 4 min ago
Grassroots Conservatives attack David Cameron's support for gay marriage, saying it has made winning the next election "virtually impossible".
2 hours 33 min ago
Up to 60 people were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd during a parade in the US state of Virginia, officials say.
3 hours 13 min ago
Denmark's Emmelie de Forest wins the Eurovision Song Contest, with the UK's Bonnie Tyler finishing 19th out of 26 countries.
3 hours 15 min ago
Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain, a senior member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice party, is shot dead in the city of Karachi.
3 hours 34 min ago
The leaders of the main gangs in El Salvador vow to maintain a 14-month-long truce, but say political changes threaten the peace.
3 hours 50 min ago
A scientist studying one of the most lethal creatures on the planet, the box jellyfish, believes its venom could be useful for medical research.
4 hours 4 min ago
The jailed Somali pirates sharing an island with millionaires
4 hours 12 min ago
The world's largest camel herd - in Australia
4 hours 19 min ago
The singers who brought colour to the 58th Eurovision Song Contest
4 hours 25 min ago
A Scottish government paper on independence will argue Scotland's potential for growth is being held back by the lack of decision-making powers.
4 hours 27 min ago
The latest UK government paper on the impact of Scottish independence will claim the UK is better placed to manage the risk of a financial crisis.
4 hours 27 min ago
Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Malmo in Sweden, with her song Only Teardrops.
4 hours 36 min ago
Police in the Serbian capital Belgrade make 104 arrests as rival fans of the city's Partizan and Red Star teams clash at a match.
4 hours 47 min ago
Behind the scenes at this year's musical jamboree
Sat, 2013-05-18 23:58
David Beckham leaves the pitch in tears as he completes the final home match of his career - for French champions Paris St-Germain.
Sat, 2013-05-18 23:46
By the man who ghost-wrote Ferguson's programme notes
Sat, 2013-05-18 23:39
Alexei Balabanov, the Russian director whose cult films caught the wildness of Russia's early post-Soviet years, dies at the age of 54.
Sat, 2013-05-18 22:46
No 10 denies that "anyone in Downing Street" made comments reported in several papers describing Tory activists as "mad, swivel-eyed loons".
Sat, 2013-05-18 22:06
Gunmen in Syria abduct the elderly father of Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, one of the most powerful voices in the government.
Sat, 2013-05-18 21:57
The authorities in Ivory Coast arrest militia leader Amade Oueremi, suspected of one of the worst massacres during 2011 post-election violence.