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United States Ryder Cup player Matt Kuchar wins the Players Championship in Florida, with Scotland's Martin Laird joint second.
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Former Wales and Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain confirms he is resigning from the shadow cabinet to campaign for the building of a Severn barrage.
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Health services in the community are reaching breaking point in the UK, the Royal College of Nursing is claiming.
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Men's 100m final and other athletics seats are being snapped up by people who previously missed out on London 2012 Olympic tickets.
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AfghanistanTwo UK servicemen have been shot dead in southern Afghanistan by members of the Afghan national police force, the Ministry of Defence says.
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The dancing dog trick act Ashleigh and Pudsey have won ITV's Britain's Got Talent.
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Yorkshire's Jonny Bairstow is included in the 13-man England squad to face West Indies in the first Test at Lord's.
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Former Sheffield United chief executive Charles Green agrees a deal to buy Scottish Premier League club Rangers.
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CubaIn Havana, a British man and his Cuban wife have just opened the Caribbean island's first curry house.
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GermanyFrom the end of WWII until the end of the Cold War, a British military train ran daily from West Germany through East Germany to West Berlin.
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Sir Alex Ferguson questions defender Rio Ferdinand's ability to cope with England's schedule at Euro 2012.
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James Anderson says this team can be the greatest-ever England side as they prepare to host West Indies at Lord's.
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The Ministry of Defence has confirmed a device which can be used as a "sonic weapon" will be deployed in London during the Olympics.
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South-west England, the Midlands and parts of Yorkshire are no longer in drought following heavy rain in recent weeks, the Environment Agency said.
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Artist Anish Kapoor gives a preview of his twisting steel Olympic Orbit tower sculpture, but admits the £15 ticket price is "a hell of a lot of money".
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Centrica, the owner of British Gas, says that rising wholesale gas costs will make supplying energy more expensive this year.
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United StatesThe undercover agent who infiltrated al-Qaeda and foiled an "underwear bomb" plot was a British man of Middle Eastern origin, US reports say.
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Manchester United and England defender Chris Smalling will miss Euro 2012 after picking up a groin injury.
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A total of 900,000 tickets for the London 2012 Olympic Games, including events such as the men's 100 metres sprint final, are set to be released for sale - giving priority to a group of unsuccessful bidders.
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The renowned British economic historian Niall Ferguson is to present the BBC's 2012 Reith Lectures, in a series titled 'The Rule of Law and its Enemies'.
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LuxembourgMajor UK-based firms cut secret deals with authorities in Luxembourg to avoid paying millions in corporate tax in Britain, a BBC Panorama investigation finds.
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Kenya, 
SomaliaA British man has gone on trial in the Kenyan city of Mombasa, accused of plotting bomb attacks and of having links to Islamist militants in Somalia.
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Public sector workers are taking part in a 24-hour UK-wide strike over pensions, but the government insists it has made them a "generous offer".
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Kenya, SomaliaJermaine Grant, a Briton on trial in Kenya for an alleged bomb plot, was linked to the widow of a 7/7 London bomber, the prosecution alleges.
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GreeceThe flame for the London 2012 torch relay and Olympic Games is lit in Olympia, Greece, and briefly goes out.
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GreeceThe 2012 Olympic flame has been lit in Greece and has begun its long journey to London.
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South AfricaDanny Care is recalled by England for the South Africa tour but coach Stuart Lancaster says the player is "treading a fine line".
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The Bank of England continues to hold UK interest rates at 0.5% and is not extending its programme to boost the economy by buying government bonds.
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British-born celebrity hairstylist Vidal Sassoon - who revolutionised haircuts in the 1960s - has died at his home in Los Angeles, aged 84, police say.
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Thousands of London bus drivers are to vote on whether to strike in a row over extra payments during the Olympic Games.
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UK manufacturing output bounced back in March, figures show, but overall industrial output fell due to a drop in oil and gas production.
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RussiaReindeer herders feeling cramped in an area the size of England
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The UK's health system needs "radical change" to cope with the rising number of people with chronic conditions, especially in deprived areas, says a report by medical experts.
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UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage warns that some EU countries face "mass civil unrest, possibly even revolution".
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The UK has only one entry competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year with Ken Loach's The Angels' Share.
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British boxing chiefs condemn the proposed fight between David Haye and Dereck Chisora and threaten to remove the licence of anyone involved.
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David Cameron says the economy is his top priority in the Queen's Speech - but Labour say the plans will do nothing to kickstart growth.
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Radical cleric Abu Qatada has lost his attempt to make a final appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against his deportation from the UK.
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Roy Hodgson will name his England squad for Euro 2012 on 16 May, three days after the end of the Premier League season.
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Kenya, SomaliaA British man accused of links to Somalia's Islamist extremists appears in court in Kenya for allegedly plotting a bomb attack.
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UK retail sales were damaged by the wettest April since records began, the British Retail Consortium says.
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FranceTottenham footballer Louis Saha tells Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman that the UK has less racial issues than France, and that the premier league is a "paradise" for players from ethnic minorities.
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The risk assessment of the NHS overhaul in England will not be published after ministers vetoed requests to release it.
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A 27-year-old man who had a sudden cardiac arrest while jogging in London's Hyde Park says he was saved by the actions of actor Dustin Hoffman.
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The pay of bosses at the UK's largest publicly listed companies rose 11% this year, research shows, as more shareholders revolt over executive pay.
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The UK premiere of Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach is reviewed favourably by critics, despite a first night dogged by technical problems.
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LuxembourgDavid Haye and Dereck Chisora will fight at Upton Park on 14 July in a bout sanctioned by the Luxembourg Boxing Federation.
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Tenants in east London are being evicted from their homes as landlords attempt to cash in on the Olympics.
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IndiaA collection of slides depicting colonial life in India has been found in a shoe box in one of Scotland's national collections.
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United StatesPrince Harry has paid tribute to wounded UK service personnel who took part in a tournament called Warrior Games, during a short trip to the US.
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UK companies remain confident despite the UK economy entering a double-dip recession, according to two new business surveys.
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Dunfermline are relegated from the Scottish Premier League after Hibernian win to ensure their top flight survival.
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Britain's Mark Cavendish says a rival rider should be "ashamed" after he suffers a heavy fall during a sprint finish on the Giro d'Italia.
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MalaysiaThe families of 24 unarmed Malaysian men shot dead by British soldiers in Malaya in 1948 have arrived in the UK for a judicial review hearing into the incident.
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An economic forecasting group says unemployment in most parts of the UK will continue to rise over the next five years, despite recent falls.
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FranceUK Prime Minister David Cameron calls Francois Hollande to congratulate him on his victory in the French presidential election.
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The NHS could save at least £84m a year by using a cheaper alternative to the licensed treatment for a leading cause of loss of sight, researchers suggest.
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IrelandDavid Beckham tops the Sunday Times list of the richest people in sport in the UK and Ireland.
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Head teachers accuse England's chief inspector of schools of "bully boy tactics" against their profession.
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A ceremony at the Olympic Park in east London officially opens the 2012 stadium, with a nine-year-old girl being chosen to start the celebrations.
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A British tourist who tried to protect a girl being mauled by captive cheetahs tells how the animals then turned on her.
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David Cameron says he is "delighted" with Boris Johnson's re-election as London mayor, after he narrowly beat Labour rival Ken Livingstone.
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Boris Johnson narrowly beats Ken Livingstone to win a second term as London mayor, after a day of heavy Tory losses.
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An expert is to look into the Scottish Police Service Authority's handling of forensic evidence during the Kevin "Gerbil" murder trial.
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Two cuckoos fitted with satellite tracking devices return to the UK, revealing new information about the threatened birds' migration.
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Fulham coach Ray Lewington accepts a role on Roy Hodgson's England coaching staff for Euro 2012.
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Labour leader Ed Miliband says his party are winning back voters' trust, as they gain more than 800 seats in the local elections in England, Wales and Scotland.
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AfghanistanTwo British soldiers, from The Royal Logistic Corps, have been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
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ArgentinaA British-owned advertising agency condemns its Argentine team over an "offensive" video showing an Argentine athlete training in the Falklands.
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A Swahili version of Shakespeare's play Merry Wives of Windsor was performed at the London Globe Theatre.
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The Premier League issues an invitation to tender for the domestic UK broadcast rights for the 2013-14 to 2015-16 seasons.
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GermanyAdolf Hitler developed a "messiah complex" as Germany began losing World War II, according to a newly unveiled British intelligence report.
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The campaign to improve hand hygiene in hospitals in England and Wales contributed to a significant fall in the rates of superbug infections, according to a report.
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The UK unemployment rate will rise to almost 9% by the end of 2012, doing "permanent damage to the UK's productive capacity", a think tank says.
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FranceThe economic policies of Francois Hollande will "have a shockwave effect on Europe" if he becomes president of France, Iain Duncan Smith warns.
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England striker Wayne Rooney wins the award for Goal of the 20 Seasons to commemorate 20 years of the Premier League.
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United StatesRBS will say on Friday that, as of next week, it will have repaid all the £163bn of emergency loans it received from UK and US taxpayers, the BBC has learned.
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John Terry and Rio Ferdinand must unite and play together for England, four former internationals tell BBC Sport.
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UkraineUK ministers may boycott Euro 2012 games in Ukraine in protest at the treatment of imprisoned former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Foreign Secretary William Hague says.
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The UK Border Force failed to meet its target for processing Heathrow arrivals from outside the European Economic Area in April, BAA says.
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The website of the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency is taken offline following a cyber-attack.
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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says Rio Ferdinand should be part of England's Euro 2012 squad.
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Two British men who have been blind for many years have been able to perceive light and some shapes after surgery to fit an innovative retina implant.
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Growth in the UK's dominant service sector slowed in April compared with the previous month, a closely-watched survey suggests.
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The governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, rejects criticism of the bank's role ahead of the financial crisis.
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British-born actress Patricia Medina, who became a leading lady in the golden age of Hollywood, dies in Los Angeles, aged 92.
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The singer moves up to fifth on the all-time UK best-selling album list overtaking Michael Jackson's Thriller.
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ArgentinaArgentina marks the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the warship General Belgrano during the Falklands conflict with the UK.
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The UK economy will return to growth in the second half of 2012, the CBI says, but it has cut its forecast for the year as a whole.
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The News Corporation board says it has "full confidence" in Rupert Murdoch following a highly critical UK parliamentary committee report.
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The Football Association says a headline in The Sun about England manager Roy Hodgson's manner of speech was "in poor taste".
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Ofcom will not be "rushed into a knee-jerk reaction" in considering whether BSkyB is "fit and proper" to hold a broadcasting licence, the BBC understands.
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England seamer James Anderson is given the all-clear following an X-ray on a thumb injury sustained playing for Lancashire.
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Air Commodore Gary Waterfall tells the BBC's Jonathan Beale the RAF is ''ready to respond'' to any threats to security at the London 2012 Olympics.
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A writer for British comedy The Thick of It criticises BBC America's decision to censor the award-winning political satire.
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ArubaTwo British tourists from Wales have been fined a thousand Australian dollars for stealing a penguin named Dirk from a theme park in Brisbane.
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Roy Hodgson says he was not surprised to be offered the England manager's job by the Football Association.
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Steven Gerrard welcomes the appointment of his former Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson as England manager.
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Figures obtained by the Labour Party reveal a 10% cut in the number of UK Border Force staff over the past two years.
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Sven-Goran Eriksson urges fans to back his friend Roy Hodgson and insists he will be a big success as England manager.
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