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Eurotunnel Dover ferries blocked
The UK Competition Commission rules that Eurotunnel will no longer be allowed to operate a ferry service from Dover.
AM Homes wins women's fiction prize
American author AM Homes beats Hilary Mantel to win the Women's Prize for Fiction with her dark satire May We Be Forgiven.
French jobless rate climbs again
French unemployment rose to 10.8% in the first quarter of the year - its highest level in 15 years, figures show.
Two Koreas 'agree Kaesong talks'
The two Koreas agree to discuss a joint industrial zone, weeks after operations were suspended there, after North Korea proposed talks.
Water leak at Fukushima nuclear plant
Radioactive water is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima power plant, following several other recent leaks and power failures.
VIDEO: Where Guantanamo's hunger strike began
The BBC's Jonathan Beale takes a tour of Guantanamo Bay, where more than 100 detainees are now on hunger strike.
Arrests over India tourist gang-rape
Police in India arrest three men in connection with Tuesday's gang-rape of a 30-year-old American woman in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.
Michael Jackson child in suicide bid
Paris Jackson, the only daughter of late pop legend Michael Jackson, is recovering after an attempt to kill herself, a publicist says.
Six dead as US building collapses
Six people die and more than a dozen are injured after a building collapses in the centre of the US city of Philadelphia.
Australia's election: 100 days to go
With 100 days to go, can PM Gillard's prospects get worse?
Infosys: Narayana Murthy's uphill task
What the return of iconic founder means for India's Infosys
India raises duty on gold imports
India increases the duty on gold imports for the second time in six months, in an attempt to rein in surging demand for the precious metal.
Locals to get more say on wind farms
Local communities in England are to be given more powers to block onshore wind farms, but also offered greater incentives to accept them.
Florida woman, 84, scoops $590m
An 84-year-old Florida woman wins the largest unshared jackpot in US lottery history - a prize of $590m (£383m).
VIDEO: China uncorks 'wine war' with France
The French government has labelled a Chinese anti-dumping probe into wine imported from the European Union "inappropriate and reprehensible".
Mummy's 3,000-year wait for CT scan
Curators at Perth's museum hope scans at a Manchester hospital will tell them more about the life - and death - of their 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy.
Greece seeks to woo US investors
Greece launches a charm offensive on investors in New York, as the country's alternate finance minister declares "the worst is behind us".
In pictures: Saul Leiter
US artist Saul Leiter's pioneering colour photography
What does Xi Jinping's China Dream mean?
President Xi Jinping has a slogan - but what does it mean?
The unsung heroine behind the decoding of a mystery language
Unsung heroine behind the decoding of Crete's ancient script
