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Tiger Woods hits a 65 to share the lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Florida, with Graeme McDowell one shot back.

A teenager who attacked a friend with a knife leaving him with facial injuries that needed 100 stitches and staples is detained for 16 years.

In Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, police say the Taliban are generating funds through bank robberies, protection rackets and kidnappings.

Watch BBC Sport's Inside F1 programme from the Malaysian Grand Prix. (UK only).

The management of Belfast City Airport withdraw their plans to extend the runway at the east Belfast site.

A 22-year-old woman who received permanent facial scars after a pint glass was smashed into her face says her doctor has advised she attend counselling.

A previously unknown piano composition by Mozart, believed to have been written when he was as young as 10, is uncovered in Austria.

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Norway plans new mental health laws to cater for mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's detention, as his trial looms.

The last known population of woolly mammoths did not "inevitably" die out because of inbreeding and lack of genetic diversity, a study suggests.

A man who appeared at a murder trial at the Old Bailey in a hospital bed is found guilty of murdering his ex-wife and her mother.

Schools are 'too often asked to make up for much wider failings within families and communities', Ofsted chief inspector says.

Great Britain's Andy Murray beats Colombian Alejandro Falla to book a spot in the third round of the Miami Masters.

TV and sports stars join in charity drive

Taliban's Karachi kidnappings on the rise

The leader of this week's coup in Mali, Capt Amadou Sanogo, tells the BBC he has no intention of staying in power, but the former leaders will face justice.

A solicitor from Leeds is jailed for 26 months for stealing more than £50,000 from an elderly client he had known for 30 years.

A Kazakh shooting gold medallist is stunned as the comedy national anthem from the film Borat is played for her victory in Kuwait instead of the real one.

Can box-office bait Johnny Depp save the Western now he's signed up for a silver screen remake of The Lone Ranger? Or are the golden days of this genre long gone, asks historian David Cannadine.

Professor Kosuke Heki of Hokkaido University in Japan believes he has found a way to predict earthquakes.