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Portuguese feel the burden of austerity measures

A growing trend for pet owners to bag up dog mess and leave it on beaches threatens bathers' safety and the health of wildlife, a report suggests.

The man who helped 'simplify' Chinese

Computer game sales overtook those of videos for the first time last year, an industry report suggests.

Why did the 50p tax rate raise so little cash?

QPR boss Mark Hughes insists the fightback his side produced to beat Liverpool 3-2 will give them belief in their relegation battle.

Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini says Carlos Tevez can play a crucial part in their Premier League title pursuit.

A gunman suspected of seven killings in France tells police besieging his flat in Toulouse he wants to die, before falling silent overnight.

Jamie Mackie grabs the winner as QPR come from two goals down with 13 minutes left to beat Liverpool and move out of the relegation zone.

Many creatures will mimic more dangerous animals in order to escape being eaten, but why do some of nature's worst impersonators survive?

Carlos Tevez sets up Samir Nasri's winner as Manchester City beat Chelsea to reduce Manchester United's lead to a point.

Nottingham Forest's Garath McCleary scores four as Leeds concede seven goals at home for the first time.

Invisible Children's co-founder Jason Russell is to remain in hospital for weeks after California police found him semi-naked and "acting bizarrely".

The discovery of a biological trigger for male baldness raises hopes for developing new treatments.

A Dutch engineer claims to have flown using home-made wings. Jarno Smeets got the idea from his grandfather's sketches and Leonardo da Vinci's wing drawings.

Mexico's Supreme Court refuses to allow the immediate release of Florence Cassez, a Frenchwoman jailed for 60 years for kidnapping.

A company appointed to provide interpreters for courts is accused of stealing the details of independent linguists to bulk up its database, BBC London has learned.

A boy of 16 is charged with the manslaughter of a consultant surgeon who was injured outside his Cheshire home and died in hospital six days later.

The head of an action group looking at reducing waiting times at emergency departments across NI says the current system is "intolerable".

The family of a black Florida teenager shot and killed by a neighbourhood watchman call for the arrest of the shooter, who says he acted in self-defence.