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Water companies criticised as hosepipe bans start

A US man who claims half-ownership of Facebook will not be able to question the firm's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, at this stage in a lawsuit, a judge rules.

Former team-mates pay tribute to Preston and England legend Sir Tom Finney on his 90th birthday, saying Lionel Messi is his modern equivalent.

Protesters clash with riot police in Athens after a pensioner shoots himself dead outside the Greek parliament, leaving a note blaming government cuts.

Chief Constable Matt Baggott asks Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary to carry out a review following criticism in a University of Ulster report.

Health Minister Edwin Poots has met the chief executive and chair of the Belfast Trust to discuss the findings of an interim report on the pseudomonas outbreak.

Urgent checks of abortion clinics ordered by the health secretary last month cost £1m and led to other inspections being cancelled, it emerges.

Lawmakers in Suriname pass a law giving the president immunity for alleged violations committed under his earlier military rule.

A North Korean defector is jailed in South Korea for plotting to kill a high-profile activist with a poison-tipped needle.

Asian shares decline after fresh fears over the health of the US and European economies result in a global sell-off.

How howling and spraying urine helps locate elusive wolves

Talks to try to prevent a threatened strike by fuel tanker drivers have resumed.

BP Portrait Award 2012 shortlist

A "white powdery substance" and drug paraphernalia were found in Whitney Houston's hotel bathroom on the day she died, says the full coroner's report.

Is this the 7/7 bomber's wife wanted in Kenya?

The Queen hands out Maundy money at a special service in York Minster.

The number of women dying from cancer of the womb - known as uterine cancer - has increased by more than 15% in the past decade, according to the charity Cancer Research UK.

The United States has announced that it will ease some sanctions against Burma.

Senegalese musician Youssou Ndour - one of Africa's most successful singers - is appointed culture and tourism minister in the country's new cabinet.

Former Rangers chairman Alastair Johnston wants all four bidders for the club to go public with their plans.