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IMF chief Christine Lagarde arrives at a Paris court for questioning over a payout to a tycoon when she was French finance minister.

Installation is under way of an expanded monitoring system for Iceland's volcanoes, which it is hoped will give the world more warning of the next big eruption.

The man killed in south-east London on Wednesday afternoon was a member of the armed forces, senior Whitehall sources have confirmed.

US Attorney General Eric Holder confirms four American citizens have been killed in US drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan since 2011.

A book about Christopher Marlowe written entirely in verse makes the shortlist for the sixth Desmond Elliott Prize for best debut novel.

The sister of an IRA victim is to meet the SDLP leader later over his party's decision to block a bill that would prevent former prisoners, guilty of serious offences, from becoming Stormont special advisors.

Nissan says it plans to recall about 841,000 vehicles worldwide, 133,869 of them in the UK, due to a faulty steering wheel.

Radical NHS changes that could see an A&E unit downgraded at a south Wales hospital are not guaranteed to go ahead, a health watchdog says.

A bomb planted in a rickshaw has killed at least 12 people in Quetta in south west Pakistan, officials say.

Organizing for Action — a group that formed out of President Obama's re-election campaign — has focused its ire on Republicans it calls "climate change deniers." But some environmentalists are frustrated with the president himself on issues like the Keystone pipeline.

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Elysha O'Brien calls herself a "Mexican white girl." Not just because of her ethnically ambiguous appearance, she says, but also because she can't speak Spanish. Fearing their children would experience discrimination if they spoke Spanish, her parents chose not to teach them their native tongue.

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Federal prisoners can request compassionate release if they are terminally ill, but a recent investigation found that many die while their requests drift through the system. Now, prison leaders say they will simplify the approval process and start tracking requests electronically.

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Airline Flybe drops its flights from Belfast to London as it quits its Gatwick hub.

A memorial to people who died in a World War II air raid in Bournemouth 70 years ago is being unveiled.

The theft of US intellectual property is "unprecedented" and costing billions, a US report says, pointing to China as the main culprit.

A man accused of murdering five-year-old April Jones and then spinning a "web of lies" to cover it up is due to continue being cross-examined later.

The first and deputy first ministers are expected to release their shared future strategy paper for Northern Ireland later.

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An 80-year old Japanese man has reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest peak.