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Tony Blair says he has no recollection of a 2004 rendition case involving an ex-terror suspect who claims he was tortured after being flown to Libya.

British number three Heather Watson sets herself an ambitious target of winning the singles gold medal at the London Olympics.

The London boroughs are the main beneficiaries of £600m additional government funding for primary school places in England.

Inventor Paul Sammut discusses the Ramos alarm clock he has invented, which requires a unique pin every day to switch it off.

ITV announces Britain's Got Talent will be broadcast at a later time from 21 April to avoid an overlap with The Voice on BBC One.

Drugs giant Johnson & Johnson is ordered by a US judge to pay $1.1bn for downplaying the risks involved in taking its anti-psychotic drug Risperdal.

Two footballers raped a drunk 19-year-old woman as a third man tried to film them through a hotel window, a court hears.

An 81-year-old woman critically injured in a fire at a care home in west Belfast dies in hospital.

A female prison officer was found naked in a bed with a "dangerous" prisoner who had absconded from an open prison, a court hears.

A $500 (£314) cheque issued by the cash-strapped campaign of Republican candidate Newt Gingrich to qualify for Utah's primary bounced, it emerges.

A prominent Muslim figure in Russia is fatally stabbed in Moscow in what his colleagues say was a racist attack.

Technology giant Apple and major publishers are accused by the US Department of Justice of colluding to increase the price of e-books.

All football fans are banned from a League Two match between Gillingham and Swindon Town following a row over policing costs.

The authorities in Saudi Arabia deny that a prominent human rights campaigner, who has been detained for a year, is on hunger strike.

Continued fighting between Sudan and South Sudan prompts international concern the border conflict might develop into outright war.

Earthquake triggers a tsunami alert

David Cameron says he will listen "very sympathetically" to concerns from charities about the impact of a planned cap on tax relief on donations.

Notorious mass murderer Charles Manson is denied parole in California, for the 12th and possibly last time, but he did not appear at the hearing.

Rangers could start the next two seasons with a 10-point deduction if they are relaunched as a 'newco', under new SPL proposals.