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Five Taliban detainees held at Guantanamo Bay agree to be moved to custody in Qatar as an incentive for peace talks in Afghanistan, Afghan officials say.

Protesters from the Occupy movement set up camp at Bournemouth University in a bid to see its chancellor, UK Supreme Court President Lord Phillips.

Rick Santorum wins a convincing victory in Kansas but Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney makes gains in Wyoming and US overseas territories.

SNP leader painting independence as Tory alternative

A 74-year-old man is attacked in the street by three men, before being dragged into his flat, robbed and tied up.

Junior Hoilett scores a brace as Blackburn climb out of the bottom three to leave Wolves in the relegation zone.

Three people are charged following protests prior to a speech in Cambridge by former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Jean Giraud, widely known as Moebius and one of France's leading comics artists, dies in Paris at the age of 73.

The BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner reports from a tanker in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia, following a recent increase in pirate attacks there.

Canadian skier Nick Zoricic dies from head injuries after crashing heavily in a World Cup skicross race in Switzerland.

Darren Rathband, the brother of PC David Rathband who was found dead at his home in Northumberland last month, speaks about his loss at a memorial service in Newcastle.

The mysterious disease killing Uganda's children

Three people are arrested in Kent on suspicion of murdering two women whose bodies were found in a flat in West Yorkshire.

QPR boss Mark Hughes is left seething as his team are denied a goal before Ivan Klasnic's strike earns Bolton victory.

Australian media report the country is running behind South Africa in the selection process for the £1.3bn Square Kilometre Array super telescope.

A kayaker is treated for shock after a rescue involving coastguards and a lifeboat on the Gwynedd coast.

Prince Harry completes a charity fun run in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in eight-and-a-half minutes while donning a paper mask with Prince William's face on it.

A 27-year-old man from the West Midlands who admitted to hacking into the website of Britain's biggest abortion provider is remanded in custody.

Coast guards in Italy use helicopters to rescue the crew of a cargo ship after it ran aground on a reef off Sicily in stormy seas.