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Football's governing body, Fifa, welcomes Brazil's progress with a law to allow the sale of alcohol in stadiums at the 2014 World Cup.

Spain cuts 27bn euros ($36bn; £22.5bn) from its budget this year and freezes public sector salaries to try to address its "extreme" economic situation.

A university in Hungary strips President Pal Schmitt of his doctorate after ruling that large parts of his thesis were plagiarised.

A five-year-old girl is among 400 children to have received assistance from the government's Forced Marriage Unit in the last year.

A bacon eating competition, a giant deckchair and the very colourful festival. It's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.

Transplant operations in the UK will continue despite concerns about contamination of the fluid used to preserve some organs, the government's chief medical officer has said.

Blackberry-maker Research in Motion says it will refocus on the corporate market rather than consumers, as it reports a loss of $125m.

The father of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin in Florida, said his was attacked and threatened before killing the unarmed teenager.

West African nations give Mali's coup leaders 72 hours to restore constitutional order or face sanctions.

A Palestinian woman held in detention in Israel, Hana Shalabi, is ending her 43-day hunger strike after a deal under which she will be exiled to Gaza.

At least 13 people have died in a riot and fire at a Honduran prison, officials say, a month after a fire in another prison killed more than 350.

China's manned submersible Jiaolong is getting ready for a 7,000 meters dive in the Pacific.

Two goals from Fernando Llorente and one each from Oscar de Marcos and Iker Muniain earn Athletic Bilbao victory at Schalke.

Apple says it will work to improve conditions at its manufacturer's plants in China, after an independent probe it requested found "significant issues".

The leaders of an 11-strong gang are jailed for scamming iTunes and Amazon out of royalties of a level usually associated with acts like Madonna.

Italians are left shocked by two cases in as many days in which men set themselves alight in protest at their financial circumstances.

The movie star Robert Redford, who played Watergate reporter Bob Woodward in All The President's Men, says newspaper standards are in "steep decline".

US oil giant Exxon Mobil loses its crown as the world's biggest listed producer of oil to PetroChina, figures suggest.

A 46-year-old man is charged with the murder of Jenny Methven at her home in Forteviot near Perth, police have said.

Doctors will vote on industrial action in May, if talks over planned changes to their pensions do not resume, the British Medical Association says.