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A family charity calls on the chancellor to avoid delivering what it calls a "break-up Budget".

The father of missing York woman Claudia Lawrence says he is still hopeful she will be found alive, three years after her disappearance.

Invisible Children's co-founder is taken to hospital after being found by California police semi-naked and "acting bizarrely".

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The funeral of PC David Rathband, who was shot and blinded by Raoul Moat, is held in Stafford.

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A campaign to get babies sleeping on their backs to reduce cot death rates in the 1990s failed to get the message across to deprived communities, a study says.

Emergency repairs which have caused delays on the Forth Road Bridge are going well and could finish ahead of schedule on Sunday.

It took up to 15 years for a campaign to cut cot deaths to be effective in deprived areas, while there was an immediate effect in affluent districts, a study reveals.

Several US government figures have spoken to the BBC about cables leaked by Wikileaks, the holes in US foreign intelligence regarding Tehran and how three successive US administrations have worried about a nuclear Iran.

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner has successfully completed a test jump from 71,500ft (22km) above New Mexico, before he attempts the highest skydive in history later this year.

Assistant coach Andy Farrell says England are not intimidated by Ireland's impressive recent record against them.

Clashes at a rally calling for a semi-autonomous region in Libya have left one person dead in the eastern city of Benghazi, reports say.

There were no traces of alcohol in the blood of the driver of the Belgian coach that crashed in Switzerland killing 28 people, an autopsy reveals.

The Vatican opens a rare criminal investigation into unauthorised leaks to the Italian media of confidential documents.

Portal 2 wins the best game award at the British Academy Video Game Awards, while Battlefield 3 wins a prize voted for by the public.

The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, named as Staff Sgt Robert Bales, arrives at a military detention centre in Kansas.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns home from Cuba after three weeks of treatment for a recurrence of cancer.

A Brazilian judge rejects the first ever attempt to charge a former army officer for crimes committed during the country's military rule.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused the US of not fully co-operating with the investigation into the killing of 16 civilians by a rogue American soldier.