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A driver is found guilty of causing death by careless driving after he left his handbrake off and his van rolled down a slope in London, killing two people.

Sri Lankan MPs have overwhelmingly approved proposals to let President Mahinda Rajapaksa seek an unlimited number of terms, in a move critics say could lead to dictatorship.

Two Londonderry women are badly beaten in a mugging in Portugal.

Four animal rights activists admit waging a hate campaign against people linked to a Cambridgeshire animal testing laboratory.

The Scottish government unveils plans to scrap the "double jeopardy" rule under its new programme for government.

The government orders an independent review of the UK's extradition laws, which will examine if the US-UK treaty is "unbalanced".

Pope Benedict XVI prays for God's blessing on the people of the UK ahead of his visit to Scotland and England.

The Pope has said he is "very much looking forward" to his visit to the UK next week, and thanked all those involved in advance for their efforts.

BP's internal investigation into the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico finds that "a series of failures" was to blame

Ministers meet to discuss whether to release information about the death of government scientist Dr David Kelly and whether to hold a formal inquest.

Formula 1's governing body turns down all the entries from teams hoping to fill the vacant 13th slot in 2011, with former champion Jacques Villeneuve among those to miss out.

The injury into contaminated NHS blood products in the 1980s will hear from the victims who contracted HIV and Hepatitis.

A 62-year-old man from Londonderry has pleaded guilty to benefit fraud totalling more £19,000.

We'll be hearing how one man was conned by a scam that cost him thousands of pounds

The Secretary of State says that he has asked Sinn Fein for an alternative text to the oath of allegiance to allow their MPs to sit in Westminster.

A scale model of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and how it is being repaired

The country "cannot afford" to write-off underpayments of income tax caused by problems with the calculation system, a minister says.

The Department of Finance and Personnel has said it needs to cut its budget by £28.2m by 2014/15.

MOD declines to discuss a claim that a senior Army IED expert is to be deployed to tackle the threat from dissident republicans

A man from north Belfast appears in court charged with rape and a number of other sexual offences, including one with a child.