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Trading in Bankia shares is suspended amid reports that it is going to ask for a big government bailout later on Friday.
French President Francois Hollande makes an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to explain his decision to pull troops out a year earlier than planned.
Counting begins at some polling stations after two days of voting in Egypt's first free presidential election, as the Muslim Brotherhood claims a lead.
Two officers of the container ship that ran aground off New Zealand causing its worst maritime spill are jailed for seven months.
A US Senate panel says it is cutting $33m in aid to Pakistan after the jailing of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden.
A man confesses to suffocating six-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 in New York, a notorious case that haunted American parents for years.
At least 25 people have been killed in days of ethnic clashes over land rights along the Burkina Faso-Mali border, officials say.
There will be nine to 15 storms during this year's Atlantic hurricane season, a "near-normal" season, US weather officials forecast.
Striking pilots of the national carrier Air India agree to hold talks with the government in a bid to end a strike which enters its 18th day, reports say.
Police raid dozens of properties across northern Germany as part of a major investigation into Hells Angels bikers, reports say.
Australia and the Commonwealth call for restraint in Papua New Guinea amid escalating tensions over the leadership battle, as police block parliament.
It is likely a decision will be made on Friday on where to site one of the great scientific projects of the 21st Century - the Square Kilometre Array.
A young penguin which escaped from a Tokyo aquarium is caught after more than two months on the loose in the Japanese capital.
A Swiss-made chocolate bunny, wrapped in gold foil, cannot be registered as a trademark, the European Court of Justice court has ruled.
Nearly 700 people are held in two Quebec cities in the biggest single night of mass arrests since student protests over fees began in February.
Harvard graduate Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, publishes a note in an alumni directory for the 50-year reunion of his class.
Argentina identifies the remains of a body that washed ashore in Uruguay in 1976 as a "disappeared" victim of that era.
Argentina takes away the concession to run two commuter lines from the railway company involved in a deadly crash in February in Buenos Aires.
A senior commander in the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) should be granted amnesty just like other LRA fighters, his lawyer tells the BBC - sparking a row with the public prosecutor.
The International Criminal Court rejects a challenge from four Kenyan politicians accused of crimes against humanity, clearing t
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The older brother of blind activist Chen Guangcheng flees his closely-guarded village to seek legal help for his son in Beijing.
Sri Lanka's ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka is barred from political office for the next seven years despite being freed from jail on Monday, his lawyer says.
A top EU official is launching a plan to rescue the eurozone by binding its 17 nations closer together.
Activity at European businesses hits a near three-year low in May, according to the survey of purchasing managers by Markit.
Talks on Iran's nuclear programme end with "significant differences", EU officials in Baghdad say, but the two sides agree to meet again in Moscow in June.
The Syrian army and security forces are responsible for most of the serious rights abuses committed since March, say UN-mandated investigators.
The official campaign encouraging people to vote "yes" in the Scottish independence referendum is to be launched, ahead of a possible vote in 2014.
Libyan prime minister Abdurrahim El-Keib lays a wreath at the spot where policewoman Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead in London in 1984.
China's Huawei files a complaint against InterDigital, accusing the US firm of abusing its position and charging ''exploitative'' fees for mobile patents.
Thailand reports a surprise fall in its exports for April because of falling demand from key markets such as Europe and the US.
Japan's consumer prices rise in April, spurred by rising fuel and energy costs, official data shows.
Departing Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola says he will be ready to return to management in the future for a club that "seduces" him.
A bomb disposal expert undertakes a controlled explosion of a suspect package in the paddock at the Monaco Grand Prix circuit.
Wigan owner Dave Whelan says Roberto Martinez is in Miami for talks with Liverpool over their manager's job.
Spain's Eurovision entrant admits her country would struggle to host the event next year if it were to win the competition for the first time in 43 years.
A work by Cuban surrealist painter Wifredo Lam sells for $4.5m at an auction in New York, a record price for one of his works.
A private funeral for I Feel Love singer Donna Summer takes place in Nashville, Tennessee, following her death from cancer last week.
Opposition politicians in Ukraine are demanding an investigation into why a session of parliament descended into a fist-fight.
A man has confessed to suffocating a six-year-old boy who went missing in New York in 1979, police say.
The older brother of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has fled the closely-guarded village where he lives for the capital, Beijing.
In just over three weeks time Greeks will head to the polls again for another shot at electing a government after the last ballot failed to produce a clear winner.
A bunker used to shelter guests and staff during the Vietnam war is discovered under Hanoi's oldest luxury hotel.
Tensions have risen between some of the main candidates in Egypt's presidential elections on the second and final day of voting.
Hundreds of centuries-old snuff bottles are to be auctioned in Hong Kong.
Marvel comic X-Men has featured its first same-sex wedding, after gay character Northstar proposed to his boyfriend.
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Thousands march for peace in Mexico TENS of thousands of people have marched in Mexico's second most populous city, angry at the inability of authorities to end a crime wave.
(heraldsun world)
Fake Android apps scam cost users £28,000 Malicious Android apps posed as Angry Birds and Cut the Rope in a scam that used premium rate text messages to defraud customers of £27,850.
(telegraph technology)
First creature to walk on land 'dragged itself along' - like it was on crutches The creature lived in floodplains on what is now Greenland during a period known geologically as the Devonian period - about 360 to 410 million years ago.
(dailymail sciencetech)
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