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Actress Nicole Kidman is being lined up to play one of this year's most coveted roles, Hollywood starlet-turned-royalty, Grace Kelly.

Communist Cuba celebrates Good Friday with a public holiday for the first time in decades, following a request from Pope Benedict.

Graeme Swann puts England in charge of the second Test as Sri Lanka move 33 runs ahead with just four wickets remaining.

Christians around the world mark Good Friday

A man is charged with attempted murder after an attack at an event on London's South Bank attended by singer Jessie J.

Track cyclist Victoria Pendleton overcomes a bruising collision with Australia's Anna Meares to win world sprint gold in Melbourne.

Sir Chris Hoy qualifies for the semi-finals of the men's sprint at the World Track Cycling Championships in Melbourne, but only after a photo reverses the orginal award of their deciding heat to Germany's Robert Foestermann. (UK users only)

A senior black Scotland Yard officer joins criticism of the Metropolitan Police, after eight officers are suspended over allegations of racism.

Four police officers are suspended in Northern Ireland following an investigation into alleged racist and sectarian text messages.

A Virgin Atlantic employee resigns amid allegations she passed on the flight details of celebrities including Jermain Defoe and Sienna Miller to a paparazzi agency.

Hungarian police capture a young man suspected of killing four members of his family with a machete in a village south of Budapest.

Passengers from three international flights which landed at Manchester Airport did not have their passports checked, the airport confirms.

A man and woman arrested over the death of a six-year-old girl at a Hampshire campsite are released without charge after her death is deemed not to be suspicious.

A documentary about bullying wins a battle to have the film's rating lowered, after reaching a compromise with the US film classification board.

Moscow condemns the US jail sentence for arms dealer Viktor Bout as "political" and says his case will be a priority in relations with Washington.

A woman is charged with the murder of a 92-year-old war veteran, as police appeal for helping in finding bloodstained clothing.

The people of Bosnia are marking the 20th anniversary of the start of the civil war that followed the break up of Yugoslavia.

The father of one of Britain's highest-profile Olympians is unhappy at the way ticketing for London 2012 has been handled.

A baby is thrown from the first-floor window of a burning house after an arson attack on the outskirts of north Belfast.

A town billed as the smallest in the US has been bought at auction for $900,000 (£568,504).