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Uefa begins disciplinary proceedings against Manchester United following their Champions League defeat by Real Madrid.

Many doctors and patients expect too much from prescription opioids as pain relievers, some physicians say. These expectations need to be reined in to curtail drug abuse and overdoses that claim more than 16,000 lives a year in the U.S., they say.

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Sit down to eat in Iceland, and you might be served boiled sheep's head, complete with the eye. In some cultures eyeballs are considered a culinary treat, but for most of us they're still in the category of "eww."

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Reporting in China is sometimes a cat-and-mouse game with authorities, who want to keep journalists far from the scene when unrest breaks out.

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The UK's largest civil service union, the PCS, has picked Budget Day - 20 March - to start its industrial action over pay and pensions.

The UK is to provide armoured vehicles and body armour to opposition forces in Syria to help save lives, Foreign Secretary William Hague says.

Volvo is to offer a product that can scan the road for cyclists and apply the brakes if it thinks a collision is imminent.

Ed Miliband accuses David Cameron of being "out of touch" for opposing an EU-wide bankers' bonus cap, but the PM says he is fighting to preserve the UK financial sector.

BBC News looks back at some of Hugo Chavez's most memorable moments.

A teenager stabbed at the home of a man accused of murder has told a court he and his friend may have tried to force their way into his house.

The number of heroin and crack users in England is "plummeting", according to the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse.

Liverpool is to host the Labour Party conference in 2016 and 2018, it is announced.

Alleging that the cardinals either ignored or covered up cases of sexual abuse involving priests, the groups are pushing to keep those cardinals from being part of the deliberations. The cardinals have either not commented or denied wrongdoing.

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Seoul says it will strike back if North Korea makes good on a threat to attack U.S. and South Korean forces.

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The parents of a two-year-old girl who died after being hit by a car in Portlethen in Aberdeenshire describe her as their "shining light".

Anne O'Byrne, Cabinet Member for Housing at Liverpool City Council, told 5 live about the plan to sell homes for £1

Few of us own the music we listen or the movies we watch in exactly the same way we did a decade ago. And today if you buy a smartphone from a cellphone company, what you can legally do with it — how and where you can use it — may be proscribed even if that phone is fully bought and paid for.

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Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi writes the song which will represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has written the song which will represent Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Rory McIlroy faces the media for the first time since walking off during last week's Honda Classic and admits he made a mistake.