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Adam Yauch changed rap through the Beastie Boys

Fulham coach Ray Lewington accepts a role on Roy Hodgson's England coaching staff for Euro 2012.

A round-up of the key points of the local election results across England, Wales and Scotland.

Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete sacks six ministers - including those of finance and energy - amid allegations of government corruption.

George Best Belfast City Airport's chief executive says he hopes that by next week another airline will take the place of BMI Baby, which stops flying from the airport in June.

Two burglars who attacked a Shropshire pensioner who later died in hospital are convicted of his manslaughter.

At least 144 people are injured at a political event in the Armenia capital after clusters of gas balloons explode, officials say.

Fourteen decapitated bodies are discovered in Nuevo Laredo in northern Mexico, hours after nine bodies were found hanging from a bridge.

BBC Sport pundits look ahead to Saturday's FA Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool from Wembley, but can not agree on the winner.

Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch has died at the age of 47, after a three-year battle with cancer.

Two British soldiers, from The Royal Logistic Corps, have been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.

Two people are arrested in a fraud inquiry involving dance schools for children as young as nine who believed they were preparing to dance in the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games.

A British-owned advertising agency condemns its Argentine team over an "offensive" video showing an Argentine athlete training in the Falklands.

Exam boards could be fined for mistakes in test papers under new powers granted to the exams regulator Ofqual.

Lorraine Kelly and Aled Jones have been unveiled as the new hosts of ITV1 breakfast show Daybreak.

Music stars Kimberley Walsh and Alfie Boe will debut a new version of the Queen hit One Vision, in front of a royal audience, later this month.

Chelsea captain John Terry has urged his team-mates to win the FA Cup in an effort to secure Roberto di Matteo the manager's job.

The Canadian firm trying to build an oil pipeline from Alberta to the US Gulf Coast has formally proposed a new route, the US state department says.

Iranians are complaining that Google Maps now has no name on the body of water that they call the Persian Gulf and is also known as the Arabian Gulf.

Malawi's new President Joyce Banda says she does not want Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, accused of war crimes, to attend a summit in July.