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Chancellor George Osborne is considering cutting the 50p top rate of income tax in next week's Budget, Whitehall sources have told the BBC.

Kiefer Sutherland's admits his new television role is very different from 24's counter-terrorist agent, Jack Bauer but he has been able to find some similarities.

A BBC investigation uncovers huge gaps in how greyhound racing is regulated in Northern Ireland.

Former Wales captain and Lions star Mervyn Davies dies following a battle with cancer at the age of 65.

TV cooking competition MasterChef crowns Shelina Permalloo as its 2012 winner, beating fellow finalists Andrew Kojima and Tom Rennolds.

The son of an elderly man who died unnoticed in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital A&E unit speaks to the BBC.

A Standard Chartered Bank employee is detained by Chinese authorities as part of a probe against one of her clients.

A group of Cuban dissidents who had occupied a church in Havana ahead of the Pope's visit have been removed from the building.

Scientists in Japan measure the brain activity of honeybees as they form a killer swarm around their worst enemy, the giant hornet.

A Welsh Conservative MP says David Cameron is "merely tolerating" devolution in Wales and the assembly must have tax-raising powers.

Christopher "Dudus" Coke is due to be sentenced on Friday at a court in New York after pleading guilty to racketeering charges.

The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghans at the weekend had been unhappy to be sent to serve in Afghanistan, a Seattle lawyer says.

Plaid Cymru's new leader will take on the Labour Party with a "far more aggressive strategy", her campaign manager says.

Notts County boss Keith Curle tips Kieron Freeman to play in the Premier League after the defender wins a Football League award.

One of Italy's iconic sites will be turned a shade of green on Saturday to mark St Patrick's Day.

A senior Scottish government minister says independence for Scotland could be negotiated in a "single year" following the 2014 referendum.

A number of payday lenders in Northern Ireland are facing investigation for unfair practices following undercover visits by Trading Standards.

A government-appointed committee says access to finance for businesses needs to be improved and warns of a £190bn funding gap by 2016.

A 24-year-old man is being questioned on suspicion of murder after a man's body was discovered at a house in north Belfast.

A fishing boat capsizes off New Zealand's southern coast and rescue operations are still ongoing for the missing passengers, local media report.