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Nigerian security forces shoot dead 16 suspected Boko Haram militants in fierce gunfight in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri, officials say.

The new head of Argentina's state-controlled energy firm, YPF, says it needs to spend $7bn (£4.5bn) a year for the next five years to boost output.

Jedward have taken part in the Olympic torch relay, carrying the flame during its trip to Ireland.

The rain-lashed Jubilee weekend provoked a torrent of weather talk. But how can this most British of conversations be made interesting?

Two suicide bombers kill at least 22 people at a bazaar near the airport in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, local police tell the BBC.

The widower of Michaela McAreavey tells the trial of two men accused of murdering her that on the day she was killed, his "life ended as well".

Cardiff City FC will change their shirts from blue to red with a new dragon crest as part of "major and significant" investment.

Health officials say the number of confirmed and suspected cases of Legionnaires' disease in Edinburgh has risen to 40.

Police officers escape injury after a device was thrown at their vehicle in the Twinbrook estate on the outskirts of west Belfast.

Birmingham give Norwich permission to talk to manager Chris Hughton about replacing Paul Lambert at Carrow Road.

A two-and-a-half-year old girl from Belfast has died in a tragic accident at a caravan park in County Mayo.

Denmark's Mads Mikkelsen is cast as Hannibal Lecter in a new US TV show based on Thomas Harris's cannibalistic serial killer.

Herb Reed, the last surviving founding member of the US vocal group The Platters, dies in Boston aged 83.

The Olympic flame crossed the Irish border to be greeted by thousands in Dublin on Wednesday, before travelling north to Belfast.

Two men are charged in connection with the deaths of three members of the Sharkey family in Helensburgh.

Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson says Roy Hodgson is the victim of a "smear campaign" for omitting Rio Ferdinand.

A marina redevelopment including new homes, a hotel and a maritime museum is given the go-ahead by councillors, despite thousands of objections.

Drinks giant Diageo is to invest £1bn in Scotch whisky production over the next five years to meet growing global demand.

A woman who was killed in a "targeted attack" in Bolton, Greater Manchester, is named by police.