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A scientist at the prestigious Cern laboratory is jailed for five years in France for plotting terrorist attacks.

The US says Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has been offered a fellowship by a US university and it expects China to allow him out soon.

Chelsea make a bid to buy Battersea Power Station and redevelop it into a 60,000 capacity stadium.

The US economy created 115,000 jobs during April, fewer than the previous month and less than analysts had expected, sending stock markets lower.

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini says his team's crucial trip to Newcastle is a tougher game than the Manchester derby.

A 94-year-old woman suffers a fractured skull in an attack in her bed at her home in Birmingham.

The peace plan for Syria negotiated by UN envoy Kofi Annan is "on track", despite widespread reports of ceasefire violations, his spokesman says.

The two Sudans swap accusations of continuing to fight as a UN deadline passes for them to cease hostilities or face sanctions.

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First Minister Carwyn Jones says voters are "coming home" to Labour and sending a message to the UK government as his party makes big gains in the local elections.

The court in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik begins hearing coroners' reports for the 69 people killed in a youth camp massacre on Norway's Utoeya Island.

George Best Belfast City Airport's chief executive says he hopes that by next week another airline will take the place of BMI Baby, which stops flying from the airport in June.

New car registrations in Scotland outperformed the rest of the UK in the first four months of the year, new figures suggest.

Greenland's glaciers are not speeding up as much as previously thought and may be contributing "significantly less" to sea-level rise, a study says.

Bristol-based Aardman Animations creates a short film featuring Wallace and Gromit to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee this summer.

HMS Ocean, on deployment in the Thames as part of the Olympic security preparations, had a close encounter with the Thames Barrier as it made its way up the river.

A new allegation of gang-rape is made in the sex inquiry involving ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in France.

A mystery Black Sea mansion fit for a tsar

Singers Plan B and Chris Martin support a charity campaign which urges music fans to protect their hearing from loud music

The brother of the man who killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is released after more than 16 years in prison for complicity in the murder.