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The Welsh Lib Dem leader hails her party's record for running councils as she launches its local election manifesto.

Can Grand National safety be improved?

The parents of the first baby to die in the pseudomonas outbreak say they believe he may have survived if the Western Health Trust had strictly followed hygiene guidelines on managing the infection.

Several people are feared trapped under the debris of a blanket factory which collapsed in the Indian city of Jalandhar late on Sunday night.

Elected mayors should have powers extending beyond city boundaries so they can "foster economic growth", a report suggests.

Fighting in the Afghan capital has ended, officials say, some 18 hours after the siege by Taliban militants began.

Anders Behring Breivik, who carried out bomb and gun attacks in Norway last year which left 77 people dead, pleads not guilty on the first day of his trial.

Post-Budget issues continue to dominate the headlines

Joint US-Philippine military exercises get under way in the South China Sea, with Manila locked in a stand-off with Beijing over a disputed shoal.

Young Matilda stars enjoying their time on stage

Downing Street says there are "various options on table" to limit the tax relief on charitable donation and ministers want to "get the balance right".

A Swiss woman is abducted from her home in the rebel-held northern Malian city of Timbuktu, officials and residents say.

Children as young as 10 are working in a mining concession owned by Glencore, the multi-billion pound commodity giant, BBC Panorama has found.

Google and Oracle are told that their sensitive financial information will be revealed as the companies begin legal proceedings on a patent and copyrights dispute.

Child benefit should be docked if parents fail to pay fines for persistent truancy by their children, a government adviser says.

The chances of finding life on Mars may be improved by looking in craters made by asteroid impacts, say Scottish researchers.

A neurologist based at Glasgow University is leading the world's biggest research study into the cause of Parkinson's disease.

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie is launching his party's council election campaign, saying it has a strong record in local government.

The truth about the number of Greek Porsches

Historian Dominic Sandbrook examines why in the popular imagination the 1970s are lampooned and despised as the era of Edward Heath, the decade of the donkey jacket, and the age of the Austin Allegro.