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Ricky Gervais defends his new Channel 4 programme, Derek, after it is claimed the show mocks people with learning difficulties.

The singer Jessie J expresses her shock at the death of a man who was stabbed with a bottle at a club where she was performing last week.

Two giant hull sections of the first of two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers being built on the Clyde are joined together.

One of the biggest teaching unions votes to join other public sector workers to challenge any government attempts to introduce regional pay.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff stresses the growing importance of Brazil-US relations after meeting President Obama at the White House.

Police investigating the murder of Coleraine pensioner, Norman Moffatt, have arrested a 42-year-old man in England.

Police investigating the murder of Coleraine pensioner, Norman Moffatt, have arrested a 42-year-old man in England.

An investigation is under way into a fatal road crash involving six members of the same family in West Sussex.

Nearly 60 people are killed in an attack by an al-Qaeda-linked group on an army outpost in Abyan province in southern Yemen.

Action film The Hunger Games spends its third week at the top of the US box office, with takings now in excess of $300m.

A former head of the KGB in South Ossetia, Leonid Tibilov, wins the Georgian breakaway region's presidential election.

Pensions Minister, Steve Webb, calls for new pension schemes that will share risk between firms and employees.

A conservation charity is fighting to keep two species of wildflower alive in woodland in Wales.

The father of a 15-year-old boy who was beaten by a masked gang in Londonderry said they threatened to shoot him if he tried to intervene and stop the attack.

Centenary of late leader's birth

The supermarket chain Morrisons says the emergence of what it calls "professional shoppers" has helped it to lift full-year profits.

South Korea's police chief resigns amid an outcry after a woman was raped and murdered despite telling police exactly where she was.

A 57-year-old man is being questioned by police investigating the death of a man in north Belfast.

Simon Cowell has congratulated the BBC after The Voice was watched by more viewers than Britain's Got Talent over the weekend.

"What a performance from Cal Crutchlow against the very best riders in the world - guys paid millions of pounds a year."