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The World Shakespeare Festival opens in London with 70 productions of the Bard's plays being performed in very new and surprising ways.

Mobile phone firm Vodafone agrees to buy telecoms company Cable & Wireless Worldwide in a deal valuing the firm at just over £1bn.

Attempts to avert a strike by fuel tanker drivers will resume at the conciliation service, Acas, later.

TOKYO (AP) -- A teenager who lost his home in Japan's devastating tsunami now knows that one prized possession survived: a football that drifted all the way to Alaska....

A "miniature honeycomb" - or scaffold - could one day be used to encourage nerves to grow in order to repair damage, according to an international group of researchers.

A powerful spring storm threatened to disrupt Monday morning commutes across the northeastern United States with potentially historic snowfall and heavy rains.

A reformed House of Lords should be 80% elected and there should be a referendum before any change is made, a parliamentary committee says.

The world's biggest food group, Nestle, announces a deal to buy children's food maker Pfizer Nutrition for $11.85bn.

One person is still in hospital in Fort William after 13 were treated for the effects of taking what have been described as illicit drugs.

More teenagers are choosing to stay on in full-time education, which Careers Wales advisers describe as encouraging in the current economic climate.

A football swept away by the tsunami and found on an Alaskan island is to be returned after its teenage Japanese owner was identified.

The Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of her party are delaying their parliamentary debut Monday as they seek to resolve a problem concerning the wording of the oath that lawmakers have to take.

Papers analyse French presidential election

The education minister will be asked to ensure there are enough pre-school places throughout Northern Ireland during a debate at Stormont on Monday.

An elderly woman was physically assaulted by a male carer and mistreated by four others in a care home classed ''excellent'' by the national regulator, the Care Quality Commission.

With a veritable arsenal of Gibson guitars and 6,500 flame throwing concerts under my belt, so far, I have turned the skulls of millions of fun musical gluttons to a fine dust over the past 50 years. As I write this, my gang of mighty Gibson Byrdland guitars are howling in savage delight as they know I will lovingly unleash them nightly all spring. . .

George Zimmerman, the man accused of murder over the killing of teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, is released from jail on a $150,000 bond.

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Aung San Suu Kyi and the other newly elected lawmakers in Myanmar's leading opposition party boycotted parliament Monday, but party officials expect their dispute over the oath of office to be resolved soon....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- George Zimmerman was released around midnight Sunday from a Florida county jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin....

Chief Bill Lee had temporarily stepped aside in March amid controversy over the handling of Trayvon Martin's shooting death.