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Richard Burton's St David's Day star

Fri, 2013-02-15 00:57
Richard Burton's Hollywood Walk of Fame star will be unveiled on Wales' national day next to Elizabeth Taylor's, the movie legend he married twice.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Sabah stand-off with Filipino group

Fri, 2013-02-15 00:44
Malaysian troops are negotiating with about 100 men from the Philippines holed up in a remote part of Sabah on Borneo island, officials say.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Drunkenness cases on nuclear subs

Fri, 2013-02-15 00:40
Navy submarine crews punished for misconduct
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: Oscar Pistorius arrives in court

Thu, 2013-02-14 23:58
South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has arrived at court to face a murder charge after his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, was shot and killed at his home near Pretoria.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: Meteor streams across sky in Russia

Thu, 2013-02-14 23:52
A meteor in central Russia has caused some injuries and shattered windows, reports say.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Call to decriminalise heroin

Thu, 2013-02-14 23:40
One of Northern Ireland's most senior drugs workers says that class A drugs like heroin should be decriminalised, regulated and made available on prescription.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Child protection rated inadequate

Thu, 2013-02-14 23:29
A Kent council is ordered to make immediate changes to its child protection services in a damning report by Ofsted inspectors.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: Disabled piglet gets tiny wheelchair

Thu, 2013-02-14 23:23
A month-old piglet from Florida, born without the use of his back legs, is now sporting a custom-built wheelchair to get around.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: Actor Le Vell on child rape charge

Thu, 2013-02-14 23:14
Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell has been charged with a string of sex offences, including raping a child.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Hospital apology for patient failure

Thu, 2013-02-14 22:59
A health board is referred to a watchdog after a highly critical report which found it failed in the care of a man with dementia who died four months after he was admitted.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Tight security on Kumbh Mela key day

Thu, 2013-02-14 22:58
Security is tightened for another peak day at India's Kumbh Mela festival, days after a stampede killed 36 pilgrims at a railway station.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: Asteroid set for record near-miss

Thu, 2013-02-14 22:17
An asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool will race past the Earth on Friday at a distance of just 27,700km (17,200mi) - the closest ever predicted for an object of that size.
Categories: International News, National / International News

'Third of ambulances' hit by defects

Thu, 2013-02-14 21:42
Up to a third of ambulances were off the road in the South this winter due to defects, the BBC learns.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Pistorius murder charge dominates papers

Thu, 2013-02-14 21:42
Pistorius murder charge dominates papers
Categories: International News, National / International News

Banksy art recovered in fraud probe

Thu, 2013-02-14 20:42
An original work by the artist Banksy is recovered and a man is arrested by police investigating a suspected fraud.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Reptiles face risk of extinction

Thu, 2013-02-14 20:38
Almost a fifth of the world's reptile species are at risk of extinction, according to scientists.
Categories: International News, National / International News

N Korea 'upgrading rocket site'

Thu, 2013-02-14 20:24
North Korea appears to be upgrading one of its two rocket launch sites, US experts say, perhaps in a move to test bigger rockets.
Categories: International News, National / International News

VIDEO: Life inside N Korea's secret state

Thu, 2013-02-14 20:14
President Obama has threatened to take firm action against the government in Pyongyang.
Categories: International News, National / International News

Sea bed to be mined for antibiotics

Thu, 2013-02-14 20:13
Scientists are to hunt for new antibiotics at the bottom of the ocean in an £8m project led by experts at Aberdeen University.
Categories: International News, National / International News

A sweet solution for healing wounds?

Thu, 2013-02-14 19:54
A nurse is researching whether an old family remedy using sugar to heal wounds does actually work.
Categories: International News, National / International News
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