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Campaigners in Pakistan say cases of acid attacks are increasing in most areas, even though tougher penalties were introduced last year.

Spain seeks to rally international support as it prepares its response to Argentina's expropriation of the Spanish-controlled oil firm YPF.

The Pakistani women destroyed by brutal acid attacks

Levon Helm, singer and drummer for rock group The Band - formerly Bob Dylan's back-up group - dies aged 71.

A Nato Black Hawk helicopter crashes in southern Afghanistan, with four people on board, US officials say.

Has the phone-hacking scandal spread to the US?

Norwich City football club apologises to a teenage fan who leaked pictures of their new strip online 12 hours before its official launch.

Microsoft profits in the three months to the end of March dropped slightly as weak computer sales affected demand for Windows.

Main line trains out of Victoria and Waterloo stations in London are cancelled or heavily disrupted by lightning strikes.

Gary Lineker says David Beckham does not deserve a place in the Great Britain squad at the 2012 Olympics.

New York police and FBI are excavating a Manhattan basement as they seek clues into the 1979 disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz.

The BBC's Ian Pannell reports from the town of Taftanaz where a massacre is reported to have been carried out by Syrian forces.

Researchers create artificial DNA and RNA molecules that interact with their natural counterparts, hinting at future "synthetic genetics".

President Ahmadinejad was forced into an impromptu meeting with a woman in the southern Iranian city of Bandar Abbas after she took the opportunity for a brief chat while sitting on the roof of his car.

All buses and lorries in the UK should be fitted with added blind-spot technology by 2015, a report suggests.

The BBC's David Sillito reports on a scale model of Stonehenge that you can bounce on.

The UN tribunal trying Rwandan genocide suspects transfers pastor Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi to Kigali - the first suspect to face justice in Rwanda.

Retired Nasa space shuttle Discovery has arrived at its new home, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center.

A soldier who died in a UK hospital after being injured by an explosion in southern Afghanistan last week is named as Sapper Connor Ray.

Finance minister Sammy Wilson has criticised the Attorney General John Larkin over his decision to take contempt of court proceedings against the former Secretary of State Peter Hain.