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A convicted killer with a string of convictions dating back to when he was 13 years old is jailed for life for murder and attempted murder.

UK unemployment rose by 15,000 to 2.52 million in the January to March period, the Office for National Statistics says.

A BMW driver is found guilty of murder after running over a man on a bicycle.

Police arrest four men over allegations of physical abuse at a young offenders centre in County Down in the 1980s.

Malaga will not comment on manager Manuel Pellegrini's future until their season ends on 1 June.

Also: George Orwell's rules for making tea; what Antigone can teach us about the burial of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

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Today marks the beginning of Google's three day conference for developers, called Google I/O. Last year the company unveiled its tech-boosted spectacles, Google glass. It was perhaps one of the most extravagant unveilings in tech history -- glass-wearing Googlers streamed live video of themselves jumping out of a plane and riding into the convention on trick bikes.

I/O stands for "input/output," so Marketplace Tech host Ben Johnson got some input from CNET's Molly Wood on what Google might be outputting this year. Wood says it won't be easy to top last year's spectacle.

Several countries gain permanent observer status on the Arctic Council but there is dissent over the EU.

After six years, author Walter Mosley breathes life back into his detective hero Easy Rawlins — thought dead after crashing his car off a cliff. Easy embarks on another case, but as the lines blur between death and dying, he may discover answers to questions he hadn't thought to ask.

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While looking for the source of a leak, federal investigators obtained phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors. There's been bipartisan outrage over what many see as government overreach. The attorney general tells NPR "I'm not sure" how many such seizures he's signed off on.

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Ireland's biggest agricultural and food show opens its doors and, for the first time in more than a century, it is outside Belfast.

The Sun has unleashed the most powerful eruption - a solar flare - of 2013 so far.

More than 1,000 officers take part in the Metropolitan Police's largest ever number of co-ordinated raids in London.

The US envoy to Russia meets officials in Moscow to discuss the case of a US diplomat who allegedly tried to recruit a Russian agent as a spy.

Police who arrested TV weatherman Fred Talbot over historical child sex abuse claims arrest a second former teacher at the school where he taught.

Chelsea and Arsenal could play off for third place in the Premier League and automatic Champions League qualification.

British Athletics coach Peter Eriksson leaves his post for family reasons after almost eight months in charge.

A £5m investment in remote home health monitors in Gloucestershire has been a failure and "absolute waste of money", according to some doctors in the county.

Francois Hollande's first year in power has been marked by grim economic news

A 1968 oil painting by German artist Gerhard Richter sets a new record in New York for a living artist's work sold at auction.