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An 18-year-old has been picked up by the Ecuadorean coast guard, after apparently surviving 28 days at sea by drinking rain water and eating raw fish.

Five players are sent off after a post-match brawl following Crawley's victory at Bradford.

The West African regional bloc Ecowas suspends Mali and plans a mission to persuade leaders of a military coup there to restore democracy.

Western powers react with scepticism to Syria's acceptance of UN envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan, as the UN says more than 9,000 have died in unrest.

A US domestic flight made an emergency landing after the captain began yelling about a bomb, passengers say.

Everton set up an FA Cup semi-final Merseyside derby against Liverpool at Wembley with a deserved victory at Sunderland.

Second-half goals from Ryan Nelsen, Gareth Bale and Louis Saha send Tottenham into the semi-final of the FA Cup, where they will face Chelsea.

The International Olympic Committee begins its final visit to London ahead of the 2012 Olympics starting in July.

Salomon Kalou's away goal helps Chelsea put one foot in the Champions League semi-finals after a last-eight first leg win in Lisbon.

A flight from New York to Las Vegas makes an emergency landing in Texas after the captain began yelling about a bomb, passengers say.

A taxi driver is arrested following a road incident in the centre of Cardiff which has left up to seven people injured.

The government suffers its 10th and 11th defeats in the House of Lords over plans to shake up the legal aid system.

Amazon starts pre-orders for its touch-screen e-reader in Europe, but has no update on a local launch for its Kindle Fire tablet.

Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli gatecrashes the press conference unveiling the new Inter Milan coach.

The parents of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager shot dead in Florida last month, attend a congressional forum on racial profiling.

A team of 10 firefighters is tackling a grass fire which spread to a house, garage and electricity poles in the Swansea Valley.

Pope Benedict XVI meets Cuban President Raul Castro on the second day of his visit to the communist-run island, and is to meet Fidel Castro later.

The Duchess of Cornwall visits the set of Danish TV series The Killing, and meets actress Sofie Grabol in her trademark off-white-and-black sweater.

Director James Cameron made it to the London premier of the new, 3D version of Titanic, after returning from his deep ocean dive in the western Pacific.

Baroness Grey-Thompson says she has attracted a stream of anti-disability abuse after she spoke of having to crawl off a train in London.