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US singer Justin Timberlake tops the UK singles chart with Mirrors while Emeli Sande stays at number one on the album chart.

Cardinal Keith O'Brien admits his sexual conduct has at times "fallen beneath the standards expected of me" after the claims that prompted his resignation.

Scientists say a Mississippi child has been cured of HIV. The research findings, released Sunday, could help cure other HIV-infected newborns.

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Scientists say a Mississippi child has been cured of HIV. The research findings, released Sunday, could help cure other HIV-infected newborns.

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A premature New York baby has been delivered alive after his parents were killed in a car crash on their way to hospital, police say.

The growth of tech and Internet use in schools has brought one unexpected benefit: Kids can get lectures from high-level scholars via Skype, and interact with them over the Internet. This opens up a larger question, though, of how to measure if the new technologies are improving learning.

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Crews have partially demolished the home of a man presumed dead after he was swallowed up by a sinkhole in Florida and expect to finish the work on Monday.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says his side will struggle to claim a top-four Premier League spot after losing 2-1 at rivals Tottenham.

Kim Jong-un wants US President Barack Obama to call him, and doesn't want war, according to former basketball star Dennis Rodman.

Hundreds of Venezuelan students and opposition members march in Caracas demanding more details about President Hugo Chavez's health.

Great Britain's Perri Shakes-Drayton wins 400m and 4x400m relay gold in the European Indoor Championships in Sweden.

At least 28 people were killed in the blast outside a Shiite mosque as people were leaving evening prayers. Sunday's attack follows an attack on Shiite Hazaras in Quetta last month that killed more than 90 people.

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Opening up the NHS to greater competition from private firms could put patients in danger from a "fragmented" health service, the chair of the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges insists.

An explosion near a mosque in a Shia area of the Pakistani city of Karachi has killed at least 45 people and injured dozens more, police say.

Ronan O'Gara's Ireland career could be over as he is left out of a 32-man squad for the Six Nations game with France.

The veteran adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes says there is no reason for him to stop going on further expeditions.

The suspected onset of diabetes may have been behind the frostbite that forced explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes to pull out of an Antarctica expedition, he tells the BBC in his first interview since leaving the icy continent.

Tottenham win a pulsating north London derby to go third in the league and seven points ahead of fifth-placed Arsenal.

The Queen is in hospital as a precaution, while she is assessed for symptoms of gastroenteritis, Buckingham Palace says.

An MP is calling on police to boost its probe into child sex grooming allegations in Greater Manchester.