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The two Sudans swap accusations of continuing to fight as a UN deadline passes for them to cease hostilities or face sanctions.

24 hours of news photos: 4 May 2012

First Minister Carwyn Jones says voters are "coming home" to Labour and sending a message to the UK government as his party makes big gains in the local elections.

The court in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik begins hearing coroners' reports for the 69 people killed in a youth camp massacre on Norway's Utoeya Island.

George Best Belfast City Airport's chief executive says he hopes that by next week another airline will take the place of BMI Baby, which stops flying from the airport in June.

New car registrations in Scotland outperformed the rest of the UK in the first four months of the year, new figures suggest.

The two contenders for the French presidency entered the final day of campaigning Friday, with opinion polls giving challenger Francois Hollande the edge over President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Greenland's glaciers are not speeding up as much as previously thought and may be contributing "significantly less" to sea-level rise, a study says.

Bristol-based Aardman Animations creates a short film featuring Wallace and Gromit to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee this summer.

HMS Ocean, on deployment in the Thames as part of the Olympic security preparations, had a close encounter with the Thames Barrier as it made its way up the river.

A new allegation of gang-rape is made in the sex inquiry involving ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in France.

BEIJING (AP) -- China hinted at a possible, face-saving way out of a diplomatic standoff with the United States over legal activist Chen Guangcheng, saying Friday that he could apply for permission to study abroad....

A mystery Black Sea mansion fit for a tsar

Singers Plan B and Chris Martin support a charity campaign which urges music fans to protect their hearing from loud music

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....

The refrain sounded by his aides is accurate: Barack Obama has done more for the cause of gay rights than any president before him....