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Venice imposes a short ban on motorboats and barges on the Grand Canal on Sunday to draw attention to the city's environmental problems.

Sunderland ease their relegation worries with a stunning 3-0 victory in the Tyne-Wear derby at Newcastle.

A Ryanair passenger jet was instructed to pull out of its landing at Glasgow Prestwick airport because a deer had been spotted on the airfield.

One person dies and two others are injured when their car collides with a fire engine that was responding to an earlier fatal crash.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso says after his dominant Chinese GP victory that the world championship fight is "very open".

How Baroness Thatcher changed UK's media landscape

Lord Parkinson, one of Baroness Thatcher's closest aides, urges people who want to protest at the former prime minister's funeral to do so in an "agreeable way".

The BBC is accused of using London School of Economics students as a "human shield" to film in North Korea and urged to drop the resulting Panorama programme.

A fire at the Five Sisters Zoo in West Calder, West Lothian, has resulted in the death of an otter and all the animals in the reptile house, where the blaze began.

After weeks of threats from North Korea, some South Koreans turned their attention this weekend away from weapons and toward a new song by the country's global rap star, PSY. On Saturday night the singer unveiled his follow-up single and video to the viral phenomenon, "Gangnam Style," at a sold-out concert.

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The UK premiere of Hollywood blockbuster Iron Man 3 is pushed back by a day to avoid clashing with Baroness Thatcher's funeral.

Labour must offer "solutions" to voters' problems if it is to be seen as an "effective party of government", ex-Home Secretary Lord Reid says.

MP Glyn Davies says snow-hit farmers are going through "desperate times" and calls for a debate in Parliament.

The general secretary of the UK's biggest trade union is re-elected for another five-year term of office.

One-fifth of complaints to banks about current accounts are not being cleared up to the satisfaction of customers, says consumer group Which?

Research by the BBC finds a number of NHS trusts are not referring details of poor care to the doctors' regulator.

Croatians go to the polls to elect members of the European Parliament for the first time, ahead of the country's EU accession in July.

Robbers carrying hammers and a knife have carried out a "brazen" raid on a jewellers shop in East Renfrewshire.

The BBC Panorama reporter behind a programme on North Korea has strongly defended the documentary against claims from a university that it put students at risk.