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Portugal passes a fourth review of its spending cuts and economic reforms and will receive another 4bn-euro tranche of bailout funds.

A suicide car-bombing in the Iraqi capital Baghdad leaves around two dozen people dead and scores injured, officials say.

China arrests activists and steps up surveillance on others to stop them marking the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Former Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel begins his appeal against a breach of trust conviction, claiming he was "not responsible" for massive losses at the bank.

Celtic say first team coach Alan Thompson was sacked via telephone because he "refused" a meeting with manager Neil Lennon.

French police find items in Paris allegedly left by a Canadian porn actor wanted over the grisly murder of a man in Montreal.

Premier League footballer Joey Barton is bailed after being held over a fight outside a Liverpool nightclub.

A Victorian fort on an island off the Pembrokeshire coast could reopen as a visitor attraction within a year.

A 46-year-old woman from Halifax is charged with the concealment of a birth, after the discovery of a dead newborn baby in 2006.

Craig Bellamy says he has been called up for the Team GB football squad for the Olympics.

Six people are now confirmed to have contracted Legionnaires' disease following an outbreak in Edinburgh.

Police are investigating a fire at the home of Ken Wilkinson, the spokesman for the Progressive Unionist Party in Antrim.

A 35-year-old man is due to appear at court in Dundee charged with murder following the death of a man outside a pub.

About 200 beacons are lit across Wales - part of a network of more than 4,000 across the Commonwealth - to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

The key prosecution witness in the Michaela McAreavey murder trial claims he saw the two accused leaving her hotel room.

Eleven people are killed and eight others wounded in an attack by gunmen on a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Mexico.

The number of people looking for work in Spain fell for the second month in a row in May to 4.71 million.

Dana Air passenger jet crashed in Lagos

Traffic wardens are back on patrol in Ceredigion after an absence of a year.

More than 800 crown-of-thorns starfish found on a single beach in Japan in January stranded themselves because they starved, say researchers.