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Never-before-seen royal home movies, including sequences filmed by the Queen herself, are to be shown in a BBC documentary.

Two fishermen are rescued after their boat runs aground off Whalsay in Shetland at about 20:00 on Thursday.

Comedian John Bishop has carried the Olympic flame to the top of the tower on the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank.

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope say our Milky Way Galaxy will crash into its neighbour, Andromeda, in about four billion years.

Entertainment venue Hammersmith Apollo which has held concerts by bands from The Beatles to Queen, is sold by its owner HMV.

Activist Chen Guangcheng, in his first major US public appearance, says democratic change in China is slow but irreversible.

The British government "will not abandon" the people of Syria following the "sickening massacre" in Houla, a Downing Street spokesman says.

The head of Anglo-Swiss mining firm Xstrata is offered almost £29m to stay on as boss once its merger with Glencore is completed.

Tracey Emin speaks to the BBC about opening a new exhibition in the new Turner Contemporary galley in her hometown of Margate.

Former President George W Bush is in good humour as he is welcomed back to the White House by President Obama for the unveiling of his official portrait.

Craig Lundberg lights the Olympic cauldron on a day which sees the flame visit Aintree, Knowsley Safari Park and be carried by a former Spice Girl on its way from Bolton to Liverpool.

Day 14 of the torch relay sees the Olympic flame travel from Bolton to Liverpool, including a ferry ride across the Mersey.

Microsoft is launching the most complete preview yet of its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, the biggest redesign since Windows 95.

The judge in the campaign finance trial of former US presidential candidate John Edwards declares a mistrial because of jury deadlock on most charges.

Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych has downplayed fears of racist attacks during the Euro 2012 football championships in the country.

A retired Russian colonel is jailed for 12 years on charges of passing thousands of images of maps to the United States.

Paralysed rats have been able to walk again when their spinal cords were bathed in chemicals and zapped with electricity, scientists have shown.

Three Gwynedd men are jailed for a total of 26 years for an armed robbery at a property in Bangor.

As final preparations are made ahead of this Sunday's Diamond Jubilee river pageant, Prince Charles has been to visit some of those involved.

A US appeals court in Boston rules that key parts of a federal law denying benefits to same-sex couples are unconstitutional.