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A free trade agreement between the US and Colombia takes effect five years after being signed, with Colombian flowers the first goods to be sent.

The operation to stop gas leaking from the Elgin platform in the North Sea gets under way.

Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld becomes the oldest recipient of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize at 80.

Manchester United chief executive David Gill says the club have funds to challenge for the title next season.

Community groups in Londonderry say the vigilante group Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) has been carrying out paramilitary style shootings and is responsible for driving scores of people out of the city.

Action from the first practice session for the North West 200.

Bond is to resume helicopters flights which had been suspended after one of its aircraft ditched in the North Sea last week.

A deal to supply the Army with armoured vehicles will safeguard and create hundreds of jobs in south Wales, says a defence firm.

Hen harriers are "perilously close" to being wiped out as a breeding bird in England, with just one pair nesting this year, a wildlife charity says.

The first minister says the Welsh government would be willing to buy a stake in under-fire Cardiff Airport if it was put up for sale.

Twitter tells the BBC it hopes to work more closely with government and other policymakers.

An Iranian man convicted of killing one of the country's nuclear scientists two years ago is hanged, Iranian state media say.

The eurozone avoids returning to recession after recording zero economic growth in the first three months of the year, figures show.

Patients in England are suffering from shortages of some medicines, according to the All Party Pharmacy Group of MPs.

Sixty firefighters are tackling a blaze at a factory in Blaenau Gwent, which forces the cancellation of train services.

India's cricket authorities suspend five IPL players who are being investigated for corruption after a sting by undercover TV reporters.

Owners of dangerous dogs who are convicted in England and Wales are to face tougher punishments under new guidelines.

Cardiff City chairman Dato Chan Tien Ghee is in Cardiff to discuss the club's future at a crucial board meeting later.

Many schools in Wales are failing to plan well enough on how to develop literacy and numeracy among 11 to 14 year-olds, Estyn warns.

On Tuesday Francois Hollande will be sworn in as France's new president, before immediately being put to work trying to tackle the European debt crisis.