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US envoys are meeting North Korean officials in Beijing to finalise details of a food aid deal aimed at halting Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions.

A record number of goldfinches visited gardens in the UK and Ireland in 2011, a survey by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) suggests.

Changes to child benefit payments will leave many parents cutting back on vital necessities, the Child Poverty Action Group warns.

Many parents would like to see a ban on the advertising of unhealthy foods and sugary snacks before the 2100 watershed, a survey for the Children's Food Trust suggests.

Vulnerable people in care homes may be struggling to get access to GPs and routine medicines in England, a review suggests.

Leg amputation rates for people with diabetes are 10 times higher in some parts of England than in others.

The policing tasks private firms are already doing

Are foxes really getting larger?

The last traditional Staffordshire oatcake shop is closing. Try our regional delicacy quiz.

Australia's economy expands by less than expected in the fourth quarter of 2011, sending the dollar to a six-week low.

President Barack Obama says the violence in Syria is heartbreaking but that unilateral US military intervention there would be a mistake.

James Herbert's best-selling ghost story The Secret of Crickley Hall is to be adapted into a BBC One drama starring Suranne Jones, it is announced.

The man who's recovered 250 corpses from Afghan battlefields

Whitehall departments have been criticised for overspending by £500m on schemes that were set up to save money.

Scottish and English universities are to work together in an effort to expand knowledge of Viking culture.

MSPs on the Scottish Parliament's health committee remain split over plans to set a minimum unit price for alcohol.

The Advertising Standards Authority clears a Mars campaign involving Rio Ferdinand and model Katie Price in its first Twitter-related investigation.

Tim Harrison from the British Trust for Ornithology reveals the birds to look out for in your gardens throughout the year.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger hopes the spirit his side showed in their defeat by AC Milan will see them back in the Champions League next season.

An elderly man dies in a house fire in County Antrim.