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Growing small amounts of cannabis should be treated like a speeding ticket with a fine and no criminal record, according to a drugs charity.

The cost of borrowing on the international money markets rise sharply for Spain as investors fear further financial turmoil in Europe.

A third of children in England cannot swim by the time they leave primary school, according to research from the Amateur Swimming Association.

Papers discuss eurozone warnings

North Korea resumes work on a light water reactor that could be used to support its nuclear programme after months of inactivity, a US institute says.

The Pakistani government appears to be on the verge of lifting its six-month blockade on the transport of Nato goods through Pakistan to Afghanistan.

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor tells the BBC he believes the net is closing around Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda.

Prosecutors describe the chaos leading to the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, on the second day of Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic's war crimes trial.

Local authorities across the UK should have a statutory duty to combat climate change, government advisors recommend.

The number of new homes started by house builders in England fell again in the first three months of the year, according to official figures.

The X Factor's Simon Cowell says he is "puzzled" about why BBC One's The Voice is not on the radio instead of TV.

Some 88% of social workers think cuts are putting vulnerable children's lives at risk, a survey five years after the death of baby Peter Connolly suggests.

A team of speed flyers have become the world's first to successfully descend Italy's Mount Etna.

Old home movies are being used to help trigger the forgotten past of people with dementia and other memory loss.

A petition is to go to the Queen asking her to set aside legislation that punished Jacobite sympathisers and all their descendants.

Japan's economy grows by 1.0% between January and March compared with the previous three months, official figures show.

Baby time-lapses are becoming increasingly common. So are they the ultimate way of documenting a child's development?

More than 60 academics from across the world gather in Scotland to examine the literary merits of the Harry Potter novels.

A subsea turbine which uses tidal power to generate electricity has successfully completed initial tests off Orkney.