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Scientists find that fruit fly males that have been rejected by females drink significantly more alcohol than those who successfully mate.

The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, visits London's Olympic Park to meet members of GB's hockey squads and try out the pitch for herself.

The body that handles global banking transactions says it will cut Iran's banks out of the system on Saturday to enforce EU sanctions.

The Scottish Football Association charges Rangers with five rule breaches and owner Craig Whyte with two.

A health chief says a robust action plan is being implemented to ensure patients are moved quickly through a Belfast hospital's emergency system, after a patient apparently died unnoticed on a trolley in A&E.

Member state delegations to the European Space Agency reiterate their desire to press ahead with missions to Mars in 2016 and 2018.

Pre-race favourite Big Buck's wins the World Hurdle for a record fourth consecutive time at the Cheltenham Festival.

The vast eyes of giant and colossal squid have evolved to give them early warning of sperm whales, their only predator, scientists show.

Network Rail is fined £1m for health and safety breaches over the deaths of two teenage girls at a level crossing in Essex in 2005.

Six Scottish colleges are facing a ban on the recruitment of foreign students after failing tough new immigration rules.

Leanne Wood wins a three-cornered contest to be elected the new leader of Plaid Cymru.

Two soldiers are shot dead and a third is wounded after an attacker on a scooter opens fire near a military base in south-west France.

Web users in some rural parts of the UK are left without a net connection as a community broadband firm shuts down.

MPs have blocked plans to charge for public tours of the Big Ben clock tower, meaning visits will remain free until at least 2015.

A coroner warns of the dangers of roller blinds after a toddler was strangled by a cord - the third UK child to die in similar circumstances this year.

A pensioner was suffocated by a mobility scooter after it flipped over and landed on him, pinning him against a wall, an inquest hears.

A County Tyrone man is sentenced to seven years in jail, for causing death by dangerous driving in Omagh.

South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin becomes the first woman to win the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, for Please Look After Mom.

The Duchess of Cambridge plays hockey with Team GB players during a tour of the Olympic Park.

Monty Panesar takes five Sri Lanka Board XI wickets and then hails the experience of spin partner Graeme Swann.