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24 hours of news photos: 16 May 2012

The Spanish government rejects a request from the Basque militant group Eta for talks, seven months after its truce, and calls on it to disband.

Olympic flame tours Greece

Police say petrol was used to start a fire in a house in Derby in which six children died, as their parents appeal for privacy.

Scottish artist George Wyllie, best known for giant public works like The Paper Boat, has died aged 90.

A former top official with one of Argentina's leading human rights movements, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, has been charged with embezzlement.

Have the punks of '77 changed their minds about the royals?

A pioneering UK project to test technology for a climate "technical fix" has been postponed and perhaps cancelled due to problems with patents and regulations.

The parents of six children who were kiiled in a house fire in Derby have appealed to the press to leave them to grieve alone.

France's new Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault names his government but party leader Martine Aubry will not join the cabinet.

The six UN observers who came under fire in northern Syria have spent the night with the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA), UN officials say.

The gas leak from the Elgin platform in the North Sea has been stopped, oil firm Total says.

England squad announcement, Rio Ferdinand's future, plus more.

A top Italian university switches to English

The Bank of England warns that the eurozone is "tearing itself apart" with the "storm" threatening the UK recovery, as it cuts its forecast for growth this year.

A female prison officer who harboured an inmate after he absconded from an open prison is jailed.

We rely on traffic lights to tell us when to go. And when to stop. We should replace that with common sense, argues traffic campaigner Martin Cassini.

UK unemployment fell by 45,000 to 2.63 million in the three months to March, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Off-duty bus drivers will visit depots in London in an open-top bus to demand extra pay during the Olympic Games.

One of the two male masseurs who have accused actor John Travolta of sexual assault withdraws his legal action.