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- Syria child massacre confirmed
- UN observers count at least 90 bodies, including 32 children, after Syrian government forces attacked the town of Houla, sparking foreign condemnation.
- Pope's butler charged over leaks
- The Pope's butler has been charged over the suspected leaking of confidential documents, as it steps up an inquiry into media leaks.
- Leftist seeks Egypt vote recount
- The candidate who is said to have come third - missing out on a run-off - in Egypt's historic election demands a recount, citing "violations".
- Finland gunman in deadly rampage
- A teenager is arrested after two people are killed and several others wounded in an apparently random shooting in southern Finland.
- Salafists clash in Tunisian town
- Hundreds of ultra-conservative Salafists clash with security forces, attack a police station and damage shops selling alcohol in a Tunisian town.
- Spain's Bankia vows transparency
- The head of Spain's fourth-largest bank, Bankia, promises greater transparency after announcing 3bn-euro losses and asking for a state bailout.
- Wanted Nazi dies in Germany at 90
- Dutch-born Nazi war criminal Klaas Carel Faber, wanted by the Netherlands after escaping from jail there in 1952, dies in Germany, aged 90.
- Humperdinck awaits Euro results
- Britain's Engelbert Humperdinck opened the 57th Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, singing the ballad Love Will Set You Free in the final of this year's competition in Azerbaijan.
- IMF boss ups pressure on Greece
- IMF head Christine Lagarde urges Greeks to pay taxes, saying she worried more about sub-Saharan Africa than the crisis-hit European nation.
- Medvedev named ruling party chief
- Russia's ruling party elects Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as its new leader at a congress in Moscow.
- Colombia troops jailed for murder
- Six Colombian soldiers are jailed for killing a man and passing him off as a guerrilla killed in combat, in order to gain extra holiday and promotion.
- Chile riot over smelly pig plant
- Chile is evacuating nearly half a million pigs from one of the largest meat processing plants in Latin America after the foul smell sparked riots.
- VIDEO: Astronauts praise Dragon craft
- The California SpaceX company has seen its unmanned Dragon cargo ship attach successfully to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time.
- VIDEO: Inside Google's lair
- Click's Sumi Das reports from inside Google on the company's quest to perfect workplace efficiency by going the extra mile for their employees.
- VIDEO: Stray dog completes 1700km race
- A stray dog has completed a 1700km journey across China after joining a cycle race from Sichuan province to Tibet.
- VIDEO: One-minute World News
- Watch the latest news summary from BBC World News. International news updated 24 hours a day.
- VIDEO: Syria child massacre confirmed
- At least 90 people, including many children, have been killed in Syria's restive Homs province, opposition activists say, calling it a "massacre".
- VIDEO: Cuba's crumbling housing crisis
- Cuba's government is taking steps to address the country's housing crisis, brought on by a struggling economy and years of storm damage and neglect.
- VIDEO: 'Pope's butler' quizzed on leaks
- The Vatican says it has detained a person suspected of leaking a series of confidential documents and letters to the media.
- VIDEO: Humperdinck to kick off Eurovision
- Britain's Engelbert Humperdinck will open the proceedings as 26 countries compete in the final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Baku on Saturday.
- Apple's boss rejects $75m payout
- Apple's boss, Tim Cook, turns down a payout worth about $75m (£48m) that he was due from the technology giant's upcoming dividend.
- EU challenge to Argentina at WTO
- The EU files a suit against Argentina's import restrictions at the WTO in the latest stage of a trade row between the two.
- Cookie law set to come into force
- Thousands of UK websites are expected to be in breach of a law that dictates what they can log about visitors.
- New Facebook app copies Instagram
- The social network's new photography app appears to replicate many features of Instagram which it is buying for $1bn.
- Lawsuits over ad-skipping TV box
- Satellite broadcaster clashes with US TV networks over a set-top box that strips ads out of recorded programmes
- BBC presenter held in Zimbabwe
- BBC Radio 3 classical music presenter Petroc Trelawny is arrested in Zimbabwe for not having a work permit.
- Nations 'wasting time' on climate
- The latest round of UN climate talks makes little progress against a "coalition of the unwilling", observers say.
- Brazil forest bill part-vetoed
- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed some of the articles in the controversial forest code, which environmentalists say could speed up deforestation.
- Male 'contraceptive gene' found
- It may be possible to develop a new form of male contraceptive after researchers in Edinburgh identified a critical gene for the production of healthy sperm.
- 'Emergency plan' to beat polio
- Tackling polio has entered "emergency mode" according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative after "explosive" outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease.
- Norway 0-1 England
- Roy Hodgson kicks off his England managerial reign with a 1-0 victory in Oslo in a warm-up game for Euro 2012.
- Schumacher fastest for Monaco GP
- Michael Schumacher is fastest in qualifying for the Monaco GP, with Mark Webber taking pole position after a penalty for the German.
- Japan's fugitive penguin caught
- A young penguin which escaped from a Tokyo aquarium is caught after more than two months on the loose in the Japanese capital.
- Hamelin hit by new plague of rats
- The fabled German town of Hamelin may need a new rat-catcher after rodents gnawed through a cable powering its fountain.
- Nations to share giant telescope
- The Square Kilometre Array - one of the great scientific projects of the 21st Century - will be hosted by both Africa and Australasia.
- Four die in Pakistan drone strike
- Four die in a US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region of Waziristan, with officials claiming the dead were militants.
- UK plans for EU immigration rise
- The Home Office draws up contingency plans to cope with a possible large increase in immigration from Greece if the euro collapses.
- Chile mine destroys Peruvian car
- A Peruvian car is destroyed and its occupants killed by a landmine in northern Chile after crossing the border illegally.
- Iran enrichment 'at higher level'
- Iran has enriched uranium at more than 20% at its Fordo nuclear site, a confidential report by the UN nuclear watchdog suggests.
- Patz suspect charged with murder
- The man held over the 1979 vanishing of six-year-old Etan Patz in New York is charged with one count of second-degree murder.
- UK soldier killed in Afghanistan
- A soldier from 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh, dies in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan.
- Warsi fails to reveal rent income
- The co-chair of the conservative party, Baroness Warsi, admits not fully declaring rental income from a flat she owns in West London.
- Anti-cuts protest at Clegg's home
- A "street party" protest by anti-cuts campaigners outside Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's home in south-west London ends peacefully.
- Welsh valleys welcome torch relay
- Thousands of people line the route of the Olympic torch relay as it winds its way from Cardiff, where Doctor Who star Matt Smith carried the flame, through the south Wales valleys towards Swansea.
- Day in pictures: 25 May 2012
- 24 hours of news photos: 25 May 2012
- Star Wars: Wales' hidden history
- Wales' hidden history
- Your pictures: Canada
- Readers' photos on the theme Canada
- Day in pictures: 24 May 2012
- 24 hours of news photos: 24 May 2012
- In pictures: Egypt votes for second day
- Landmark election
- In pictures: Egypt votes
- Images from the streets of Cairo as polls open
- Day in pictures: 23 May 2012
- 24 hours of news photos: 23 May
- In pictures: Sanaa suicide attack
- Suicide bomb in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa
- Eurovision and activism in Baku
- Song contest turns the spotlight on Azerbaijan
- A Point of View: I'm not toasting [insert head-of-state here]
- Why Will Self won't drink a toast to the Queen or any head of state
- Mount Everest's continuing pull
- Are there too many people trying to scale Everest?
- Regional rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
- Regional rise of Muslim Brotherhood appears irresistible
- Week in pictures: 19-25 May 2012
- News photos from around the world this week
- The plunder of Afghanistan's fabulous ruby mines
- The plunder of Afghanistan's fabulous gemstone mines
- Made in Chelsea
- What happens to gardens when the flower show is over?
- Slow progress in solving Burma's ethnic conflicts
- Some hopes of solving Burma's armed ethnic conflicts
- 'I get weird, painful swellings'
- The rare condition which causes stress and pain
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