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Fifa's general secretary expresses concern about Brazil's preparations for the 2014 World Cup, and says the organisers need a "kick up the backside".

The British photo journalist wounded in the Syrian city of Homs, Paul Conroy, has told Newsnight's Gavin Esler he fears the slaughter there may be comparable to past murderous events in Srebrenica or Rwanda.

President Obama calls a US law student to offer support after she was attacked by radio host Rush Limbaugh for testifying in support of contraception.

Two men are held by police in connection with the death of a 17-year-old in Greenock two months ago.

Hackers took "full functional control" of key Nasa computers in 2011, the agency's inspector general tells a US congressional committee.

Personal details of up to 87 police officers have allegedly been passed to inmates in Maghaberry Prison by a jailed ex-policeman, a court has heard.

The head of a local body responsible for protecting the young from harm says agencies helped to avoid a tragedy involving a three-year-old boy.

Steve Hilton, one of David Cameron's closest advisers, is taking a year's break from Downing Street to take an academic position in the US.

Lotus's Romain Grosjean sets the fastest time for the second day running at the final pre-season test in Barcelona.

At least 28 people are killed in the US states of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, as storms and tornadoes sweep across vast parts of the Midwest.

England 1966 World Cup winner Jack Charlton is recovering in hospital after hip replacement surgery following a fall at his home.

Define Britishness? It's like painting wind

The decision to wear a tie can be a sartorial minefield for politicians and the public alike, says historian David Cannadine.

How machinery is replacing body parts

Two French journalists who were caught up in shelling and smuggled out of Homs into Lebanon have been flown back to a military airport outside Paris.

The ICRC says Syria has refused to allow a humanitarian convoy to enter the bombarded Baba Amr district of Homs, a move it calls "unacceptable".

The Environment Secretary's son is not appealing against a High Court decision to lift a privacy injunction about his use of banned substances following a sports injury.

Spain's National Court orders the extradition to Egypt of Hussein Salem, a close associate of former President Hosni Mubarak.

The body which oversees organ donation apologises to two patients from Merseyside who developed a rare blood cancer after kidney transplants.

A man allegedly secretly filmed kissing a US university student, days before he killed himself, tells a court he noticed a webcam in the dorm room.