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Aircraft maker Airbus has been ordered to check the wings of all A380 superjumbo planes currently in service.

Police and coastguards try to trace the owners of a car found abandoned in waters off the coast of Dumfries and Galloway.

Talks to end a police strike in the Brazilian state of Bahia break down, as troops blockade the state assembly occupied by striking officers.

Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive, Stephen Hester, tells the BBC he briefly considered resigning during the uproar over his bonus.

A Liberal Democrat AM accuses the Welsh government of negligence over the handling of a race relations body at the centre of claims of wrongdoing.

Israel's main trade union federation launches a national strike intended to shut down government offices, banks, airports, ports and rail services.

Syrian opposition groups say the city of Homs has come under the heaviest shelling in days, despite the president's pledge to engage in dialogue.

Greek PM Lucas Papademos is set to meet coalition parties in an attempt to seal an austerity deal to secure a new EU/IMF bailout.

A new squad of 1,000 officers dedicated to tackling gang-related crime in London is being launched by the Metropolitan Police.

A police woman's lost mobile phone containing hundreds of photographs and operational details falls into the hands of dissident republicans.

Coroners rule Don Cornelius's death was suicide, nearly a week after the Soul Train creator was found with a gun shot to his head.

Three paintings from Elizabeth Taylor's personal art collection are sold for almost £14 million at an auction in London.

Scientists in the US have successfully made human brain cells in the lab that are an exact replica of genetically caused Parkinson's disease.

An assembly member is to lead a Senedd debate later in a bid to introduce compulsory microchipping for dogs in Wales.

Pakistani PM Yousuf Raza Gilani files an appeal against appearing before the Supreme Court on contempt charges on 13 February.

Employers added permanent jobs for the first time in four months in January, says the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.

A 70-year-old man was struck dead by a stolen car minutes after officers stopped chasing it, police say.

Papers ponder health bill as it returns to Lords

Crucial assembly elections are under way in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, a major test of support for the ruling Congress party.

A rock fall that released methane gas may have triggered the deadly Pike River mine blast in New Zealand, experts report.