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Application for GB to host the 2015 EuroBasket event could be final hurdle in bid to guarantee London 2012 spot.

At least 30 workers are rescued and at least two are missing after a storm causes an oil rig off China's north-east coast to list dangerously.

The debt-laden Greek economy shrank by a surprise 1.8% in the second quarter as households slashed spending.

One of Britain's top budgerigar breeders returned home to find his champion bird had been stamped on and 21 others stolen in a suspected attack by a rival.

The centre piece of the track is a huge Koi carp pool with bridges and waterfalls, where workmen can be seen maintaining the tracks.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today insisted it was for the police to decide how to proceed over the News of the World phone hacking row.

Keir Starmer supports recommendations made by the Law Commission for a three-tier system for homicide cases, depending on their seriousness.

A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.

The parents of the woman whom Wayne Rooney allegedly paid £1,200 a time for sex has apologised to the footballer's wife.

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls the plans by a radical pastor to burn copies of the Koran a "disgraceful act", Channel 4 News asks whether anti-Muslim sentiment is echoed across America.

Calls for different degrees of murder charges have received the backing of the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, the BBC learns.

The parents of the woman whom Wayne Rooney allegedly paid £1,200 a time for sex has apologised to the footballer's wife.

The introduction of a two tier murder charge would be the greatest shake up of the offence since the abolition of the death penalty half a century ago.

David Cameron has joined the media storm around Wayne Rooney's private and professional life.

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A fungus that 'eats' cine film threatens to irreversibly damage important film archive and record of British social history.

Parents of prostitute linked to Wayne Rooney apologise to Coleen.

Rwanda says it will express its outrage to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon about being accused of possible genocide in a UN report.

The priest suspected of the 1972 Claudy bombing met Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness shortly before he died, it was revealed today.

Domestic heat pumps need to be subject to tighter regulations in order for them to deliver widespread energy savings, a report suggests.