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President Obama says the "tragedy" of a black teenager killed by a neighbourhood watchman in Florida should prompt national soul-searching.

A judge has declined to rule on whether Rangers can rip up its season-ticket deal with Ticketus, which it emerges was worth more than £30m.

The European Union expands its mission against Somali pirates, by allowing military forces to attack land targets as well as those at sea.

Manager Ally McCoist wants to give Rangers supporters "something to shout about" in Sunday's Old Firm game.

Thousands of supporters greet Pope Benedict XVI on his first visit to Mexico, as he denounces the "evil" of drug-related violence in the country.

The government fails to get permission to appeal to the Supreme Court over its plan to cut subsidies for solar panels on homes.

As an investigation gets under way into the shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Florida, the US President was asked to comment on the case.

The UK medicines regulator has issued a warning after the wrong strength of tablets was put into some packets of the painkiller co-codamol.

The Queen has visited Salford and officially opened the BBC's base in the MediaCityUK complex.

Three hundred people in Denmark were wrongly told they had won three billion euros in their country's national lottery.

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp denies his link to the England job has contributed to Spurs's downturn in form.

Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire is to be digitally re-mastered and brought back to the big screen as part of the London 2012 Festival.

Royal Naval Reservist Aircraft Engineer Mechanic Michelle Ping was mentioned in dispatches for her bravery during her first tour of Afghanistan last year.

A Newry woman is given a minimum tariff of 14 years on her life sentence for the murder of a homeless Polish man who was beaten to death in the city.

Somali ex-warlord Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed - the first president of the country's interim government - dies aged 77 in the United Arab Emirates.

England rugby star Danny Care is questioned over an alleged sexual assault on a woman in Leeds.

West Ham United are among four bidders seeking to become tenants at the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Games.

The Welsh government welcomes minimum pricing plans for alcohol in England and Wales, and says it has consistently called for it to happen.

Preview followed by live coverage of Saturday's game between Bolton and Blackburn in the Premier League.

The average price of unleaded petrol reaches a new high of 140.20p per litre, according to industry analysts Experian Catalist.