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Police defend a delay of over an hour before officers arrived at the scene of a car bomb alert in Newry, County Down.

Manchester United go eight points clear at the top of the Premier League as a controversial Wayne Rooney penalty helps them defeat QPR.

A teenager is arrested after a missing 10-year-old girl is found with serious head injuries.

A union condemns Welsh government plans for teacher appraisals, fearing more form-filling and a rising workload.

The leader of the NASUWT teachers' union strongly criticises Michael Gove - alongside a life-sized cut-out of the education secretary.

North Korea moves its long-range Unha-3 rocket into place for a controversial launch, amid reports it is also planning a nuclear test.

The German writer and Nobel laureate Guenter Grass is declared persona non grata by Israel over what it describes as a "mendacious poem".

The possibility a six-year old girl died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning at a Hampshire campsite is being investigated by police.

Police in Oklahoma arrest two white men on suspicion of murder after three black people were shot dead in Tulsa on Friday.

Rescue teams in Peru are trying to free nine mine workers trapped underground by a rockfall at the Cabeza de Negro copper and gold mine in the south of the country.

The top legal body in Bahrain rejects a Danish request to transfer political prisoner Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, said to be close to death on hunger strike.

Rowan Williams has warned against "downgrading" religious education in secondary schools in his last Easter sermon as Archbishop of Canterbury.

A member of the Scottish Parliament is expelled from the SNP over allegations of domestic abuse published in a Sunday newspaper.

From Monday, Northern Ireland will be the first place in the UK where microchipping of dogs is compulsory, making it easier to identify dogs and potentially reducing the number of strays.

Teachers in the NUT union vote to ballot for a boycott of a new phonics reading test if its results are used in league tables.

Teenage boy is attacked by a gang of armed, masked men in County Londonderry.

At least 38 people die after a car bomb explodes near a church in the Nigerian city of Kaduna on Easter Sunday, officials say.

About 20,000 litres of fuel has now been removed from the stricken cargo ship off the north Wales coast, say environment officials.

A father and his 14-year-old son from the West Midlands were among three people who died in a car crash in East Yorkshire, police confirm.

Damon Albarn says he believes Blur's summer gig in London's Hyde Park will be the band's last.