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9:03 am (21 minutes ago)
The Hubble space telescope returns to view one of its favourite subjects - a giant stellar explosion first seen from Earth in 1987.
9:00 am (24 minutes ago)
Wayne Rooney is still expected to travel to Switzerland for England's Euro 2012 qualifier despite allegations about his private life.
8:54 am (29 minutes ago)
The group of miners in Chile trapped underground for a month have been talking to their families on a video link.
8:48 am (36 minutes ago)
Israel carries out three bombing raids on the Gaza Strip, killing one man and injuring another.
8:29 am (54 minutes ago)
A suicide car bombing at a military base in the southern Russian region of Dagestan kills five soldiers and wounds about 40 others.
8:13 am (an hour ago)
Police in New Zealand name nine people, including four foreigners, who died when a light aircraft crashed after taking off from Fox Glacier on Saturday.
8:03 am (an hour ago)
Officials assess the damage caused by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, as aftershocks continue.
7:52 am (an hour ago)
A fourth Pakistan cricketer is being investigated by cricket's governing body, claims the News of the World.
6:54 am (2 hours ago)
Officers are trying to establish the identity of a badly-burnt body discovered by players on a golf course near Brighton.
6:02 am (3 hours ago)
The Indian businessman hoping to buy Blackburn Rovers, Ahsan Ali Syed, left a trail of debt from his time in the UK, 5 live Investigates reveals.
5:35 am (4 hours ago)
An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery now faces being whipped for indecency, her son says.
5:19 am (4 hours ago)
Five-time champion Roger Federer cruises into the fourth round of the US Open with a straight sets win over Paul-Henri Mathieu.
5:04 am (4 hours ago)
Armed robbers in Barbados have set fire to a clothing shop in the capital, Bridgetown, killing six people who were inside.
4:13 am (5 hours ago)
Thousands of tonnes of US military equipment have been moved out of Iraq but plenty has been left behind - and not just for the troops who remain there.
3:27 am (6 hours ago)
The official in charge of cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill says the well which caused the damage is no longer a risk to the environment.
2:40 am (7 hours ago)
A police officer who was caught on CCTV injuring a woman by throwing her into a cell faces being dismissed.
2:17 am (7 hours ago)
A state of emergency is declared in Guatemala where heavy rain has caused widespread flooding and landslides, killing at least 18 people.
2:08 am (7 hours ago)
Prosecutors in Bahrain accuse 23 Shia activists of forming a "terrorist network" aiming to overthrow the Gulf state's Sunni-dominated government.
1:02 am (8 hours ago)
Tropical Storm Earl reaches Nova Scotia, on the eastern Canadian coast, with hundreds of thousands of people experiencing power cuts.
12:47 am (9 hours ago)
Scotland faces nearly £4bn of cuts over the next four years, Finance Secretary John Swinney is warning.
12:16 am (9 hours ago)
Former head of the Army Gen Sir Richard Dannatt accuses Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of letting down British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Yesterday 11:58 pm (9 hours ago)
Survivors of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes arrive at the San Jose mine to support the 33 men trapped underground.
Yesterday 11:43 pm (10 hours ago)
Injury-hit midfielder Owen Hargreaves has been left out of Manchester United's Champions League squad.
Yesterday 10:55 pm (10 hours ago)
The Foreign Office confirms that 24-year-old Briton Brad Coker was among nine killed in a light aircraft crash in New Zealand.
Yesterday 10:47 pm (11 hours ago)
Afghans have continued to withdraw money from the country's largest bank, Kabul Bank, over fears it may collapse.
Yesterday 10:13 pm (11 hours ago)
Online marketplace Craigslist closes its US adult services listing following pressure from attorneys general and advocacy groups.
Yesterday 9:02 pm (12 hours ago)
Two people are killed when their plane crashes to the ground after a collision with another aircraft on the Isle of Wight.
Yesterday 8:50 pm (13 hours ago)
Thousands attend rallies in Paris and other French cities to protest at the government's policy of deporting Roma people.
Yesterday 6:52 pm (15 hours ago)
Police release the name of a man who was found dead at his apartment in Armagh city on Friday.
Yesterday 6:45 pm (15 hours ago)
More plans to reduce the number of councillors in Wales are put forward to create what ministers say would be greater fairness for voters.
Yesterday 6:40 pm (15 hours ago)
HM Revenue and Customs says some 1.4 million people each owe about £1,500 in tax, while 4.3 million will get an average rebate of £418.
Yesterday 6:34 pm (15 hours ago)
Eggs and shoes are thrown at the former Prime Minister Tony Blair as he attends a book signing in Dublin.
Yesterday 6:25 pm (15 hours ago)
Scottish event rider Nicola Malcolm is airlifted to hospital after falling from her horse during the Burghley Horse Trials.
Yesterday 5:46 pm (16 hours ago)
Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls says the home secretary should make a statement about claims of phone tapping by the News of the World.
Yesterday 4:35 pm (17 hours ago)
England and Tottenham defender Michael Dawson will miss the game with Switzerland after being ruled out for at least six weeks.
Yesterday 4:27 pm (17 hours ago)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has formed a committee to seek peace talks with the Taliban, his office says.
Yesterday 3:55 pm (17 hours ago)
The funeral is held of singer Charles Haddon from Northamptonshire who died in a fall in Belgium.
Yesterday 3:10 pm (18 hours ago)
England captain Catherine Spencer believes her side can end New Zealand's dominance of the women's game when the two meet in Sunday's World Cup final.
Yesterday 2:09 pm (19 hours ago)
England captain Paul Collingwood says his side are "100% prepared" for Sunday's first Twenty20 international against Pakistan in Cardiff.
Yesterday 12:56 pm (20 hours ago)
A Tory councillor defects to Labour over cuts to the government's schools building programme, saying she was "ashamed to be a Conservative".
Yesterday 11:59 am (21 hours ago)
Ali-Foreman boxing match venue now in state of decay
Yesterday 11:46 am (22 hours ago)
Should a journalist bear witness, or interfere to help save a life?
Yesterday 11:39 am (22 hours ago)
Eggs and shoes have been thrown by anti-war protestors at former Prime Minister Tony Blair as he arrived at a book signing in Dublin.
Yesterday 11:37 am (22 hours ago)
The South Korean Foreign Minister, Yu Myung-hwan, offers to resign after it was revealed that his daughter was offered a job in his ministry.
Yesterday 10:51 am (23 hours ago)
A Saxon boat is uncovered during flood defence work on the River Ant in Norfolk.
Yesterday 10:20 am (23 hours ago)
Villagers told by BT it will cost £550,000 for a broadband connection receive an estimate from another company of £50,000.
Yesterday, 7:30 am
The Modified Toy Orchestra is a band made up of five musicians - and 48 tweaked toy instruments.
Yesterday, 7:25 am
Author Ian McEwan talks to Matt Stadlen about the exercise of writing, the importance of long, moody walks, the "thinginess" of James Joyce and getting to grips with quantum mechanics.
Yesterday, 5:01 am
The former Pakistan cricket captain, Imran Khan, has said that if players are found guilty of spot fixing, they should not be given a life ban, which some officials are demanding.
Yesterday, 2:10 am
Comic Eddie Kadi can command vast crowds at his live shows. Why has he attracted so little mainstream attention?
Yesterday, 1:39 am
Fewer children are learning to play a musical instrument than in their parents' generation, a survey suggests.
Yesterday, 12:56 am
Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read.
Yesterday, 12:41 am
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the BBC that radical Islam is the greatest threat facing the world.
Friday, 10:02 pm
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes New Zealand's South Island, causing widespread minor damage and power cuts.
Friday, 9:44 pm
Thousands of people watch Robbie Williams switch on Blackpool's illuminations.
Friday, 9:12 pm
The Brazilian state oil company, Petrobras, unveils plans to sell up to $64.5bn of new stock, in one of the world's largest share offers.
Friday, 7:23 pm
Police in Mozambique's capital fire rubber bullets on the third day of riots, as the violence spreads to the central city of Chimoio.
Friday, 6:19 pm
HSBC may quit its London headquarters if the UK government decides to break up big banks, a senior executive says.
Friday, 5:47 pm
Three of the world's most successful club DJs join forces to pay tribute to those who died at the Love Parade festival in Germany in July.
Friday, 5:44 pm
Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.
Friday, 5:40 pm
The United Nations' food agency calls a special meeting of policy makers to discuss the recent rapid rises in food prices.
Friday, 4:20 pm
The re-introduction of wolves to a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped.
Friday, 4:05 pm
The US economy shed another 54,000 jobs in August, the third month in a row that jobs have been lost, official figures show.
Friday, 2:35 pm
Veteran broadcaster Sarah Kennedy is leaving BBC Radio 2's Dawn Patrol show - 34 years after joining the station
Friday, 2:19 pm
Rory Cellan-Jones tries out 3D video equipment and looks at the latest ultra thin and bright OLED TVs.
Friday, 1:52 pm
One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show.
Friday, 12:36 pm
Tests on a type of breast implant filled with an unapproved gel have shown no evidence they are unsafe, UK experts say.
Friday, 12:12 pm
Tony Blair's memoirs has become the fastest selling autobiography in Britain. But what are the biggest overall sellers?
Friday, 11:43 am
Sony has won a permanent ban in Australia of a hack for its PS3, but the code behind it has been released for free on the web.
Friday, 12:49 am
England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say.
Friday, 12:42 am
The world is on the verge of a bed-bug pandemic, according to a report - how did the tiny biting insects come to pose such a threat?
Friday, 12:03 am
Gardeners are being warned about the risk of Legionnaire's disease from compost after a pensioner developed the disease after handling compost.
Thursday, 4:33 pm
A potentially revolutionary circuit component, once a laboratory curiosity, is to be mass-produced for the first time.
Thursday, 1:45 pm
The global disparity in access to broadband around the world and the cost of a connection is revealed by UN figures.
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