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A £20bn government scheme to try to boost bank lending to small and medium-sized businesses is launched by the chancellor.

Former Pakistan bowler Mohammad Amir blames ex-captain Salman Butt for misleading him in the spot-fixing saga in 2010. Pictures from Sky Sports.

Twelve Mexican police officers are killed in an ambush as they search for the bodies of 10 people whose heads were found on Sunday.

As the Libyan authorities try to secure the extradition of Abdullah al-Senussi - the head of intelligence in Col Gaddafi's government - from neighbouring Mauritania, details have emerged about the number of people that may have been killed and abducted during the uprising.

Employment Minister Chris Grayling criticises the BBC and other media for their coverage of last month's row about the government's Work Experience Scheme.

Former Pakistan bowler Mohammad Amir blames ex-captain Salman Butt for misleading him in the spot-fixing saga in 2010.

Talk of retiring two-time Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Kauto Star would be "very premature", says trainer Paul Nicholls.

Deutsche Boerse is to legally challenge the European Union's decision to block its planned merger with rival NYSE Euronext.

Carl Froch is adamant that he is still "looking pretty" ahead of his world title clash against Lucian Bute on 26 May.

The case of former Desperate Housewives actress Nicollette Sheridan, who sued the show for killing off her character, ends in a mistrial.

Fans celebrate at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay

A lawyer for Robert Bales, the US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, says his client can remember little about the massacre.

Six people are arrested in the UK and Spain on suspicion of importing and selling fake drugs including Viagra.

French police say one of the guns used in a fatal shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse was also used in the killings of three French soldiers.

England hooker Dylan Hartley is cited for an alleged biting incident against Ireland in last Saturday's Six Nations match.

Thousands of fans welcome the Wales team at a victory event at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay to mark Wales' Grand Slam success.

North Korea invites UN nuclear inspectors in for the first time in three years, to help secure a food aid deal with the United States.

Electroconvulsive therapy for the depressed works by "turning down" an overactive connection in the brain, researchers say.