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The government announces the date of the next Queen's Speech which will set out the bills it intends to introduce over the following year.

Labour's Scottish leader Johann Lamont says she wants Eric Joyce to step down as Falkirk MP after newspaper allegations about a relationship with a teenage girl.

Ricardo Teixeira is to remain in his role as head of Brazilian football and the 2014 World Cup organising committee.

Nato says two of its troops have been killed in Afghanistan, the latest of several attacks following the burning of the Koran by US soldiers.

Fiery youth leader Julius Malema remains defiant despite his expulsion from South Africa's ruling African National Congress - saying: "I will die for what I believe in".

Iranians anxious over sanctions and mismanaged economy

One passenger has been describing what happened when fire broke out on the Costa Allegra.

BBC Breakfast presenter Sian Williams, who is stepping down from the show ahead of the move to Salford, will co-host Saturday Live.

The BBC's Jim Muir says video footage from activists in the Baba Amr district has "dried up" as the Syrian army tightens its grip on Homs.

Readers' pictures on the theme coffee break

Advertising giant WPP reports record profits and says major events such as the Olympics should boost trading in the coming year.

Archaeologists propose a unique model to excavate the Bronze Age site Flag Fen in Cambridgeshire: getting interested members of the public to do it.

More than 800 jobs are to be lost after defence giant BAE Systems confirms it is ending manufacturing at its Brough site.

Davy Jones' Monkees bandmates lead tributes to their "fellow-adventurer" after the British singer dies aged 66 in Florida.

Syria's main political opposition forms a military bureau to co-ordinate rebel fighters, as the UN condemns government attacks on civilians.

Florence And The Machine, Kasabian and Foo Fighters all take home prizes at this year's NME music awards.

A Scotland Yard chief bought champagne for a News of the World journalist on his force's credit card, the Leveson Inquiry hears.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tweets that he is recovering well after surgery in Cuba for a suspected recurrence of cancer.

Ten people are hurt in a suspected bomb explosion that damaged a police bus in the Turkish city of Istanbul, police say.

Almost two-thirds of voters think the assembly should have some influence over taxes, according to a poll for BBC Wales which also suggests little support for an independent Wales.