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- Three 'hindered' Boston blasts case
- Three college classmates of the Boston bombings suspect are arrested on suspicion of hindering the police investigation into the attacks.
- Pope condemns Dhaka 'slave labour'
- Pope Francis denounces as "slave labour" the conditions of workers caught in a building collapse that killed more than 400 in Bangladesh last week.
- American settlers 'turned cannibal'
- Newly discovered bones prove the first permanent British settlers in North America turned to cannibalism over the winter of 1609-10, US researchers say.
- Images 'reveal Nigeria army abuse'
- Satellite images reveal that 2,275 homes were burned in a military raid to find militant Islamists in northern Nigeria last month, a rights group says.
- Facebook U-turn over beheading clips
- Facebook changes its earlier stance on videos of people being decapitated which had been spread on its site, now saying it will remove them.
- Bolivian leader expels US aid agency
- Bolivian President Evo Morales says he is expelling the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for seeking to undermine his government.
- Atoms star in world's smallest movie
- IBM scientists use a few dozen atoms as stars in their film A Boy and his Atom, which has garnered the title of world's smallest movie.
- Greeks stage anti-austerity strike
- A general strike against tough austerity measures is held in Greece amid a series of May Day demonstrations around the world.
- Militants target Iraq Sunni militia
- At least 14 members of an anti-al-Qaeda Sunni militia are killed in two attacks by militants near the western Iraqi city of Fallujah, officials say.
- China bird flu is 'serious threat'
- The outbreak of a new type of bird flu in China poses a "serious threat" but it is too soon to tell how far it will spread, flu experts have warned.
- Three UK soldiers die in Afghanistan
- David Cameron says officials will look carefully at how three British soldiers died in a bomb attack on a heavily armoured vehicle in Afghanistan.
- Film star Deanna Durbin dies at 91
- Actress and singer Deanna Durbin, one of Hollywood's biggest box-office stars in the 1930s and early '40s, dies aged 91.
- Mount Fuji 'set for Unesco listing'
- Mount Fuji is on course to become a Unesco World Heritage site after being approved by a key committee, Japanese officials say.
- India zoo shut after tiger intrusion
- Authorities in India close a zoo to visitors after a male tiger enters from the wild, apparently seeking to mate with one of the zoo's tigresses.
- VIDEO: Atoms in 'world's smallest movie'
- A film using single atoms to animate a boy playing with a ball, dancing, and bouncing on a trampoline, has become the world's smallest stop-motion movie.
- VIDEO: Historic African school turns 50
- The first multi-racial school in southern Africa, Waterford Kamhlaba School in Swaziland, is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
- AUDIO: Bugs Bunny turns 75
- Bugs Bunny turns 75 this year - the BBC hears from Billy West who was the cartoon character's voice for 10 of those years.
- VIDEO: One-minute World News
- Watch the latest news summary from BBC World News. International news updated 24 hours a day.
- VIDEO: Woman finds toad in a can of beans
- A woman has described her horror at finding a toad in a can of green beans.
- VIDEO: Rare glimpse inside Cuba's prisons
- Cuba has allowed foreign journalists to visit several of its prisons, for the first time in almost a decade.
- VIDEO: Space launch for Canadian banknotes
- Canadian astronaut presented the country's new banknotes from aboard the International Space Station.
- VIDEO: Sri Lanka's electricity prices rocket
- There is controversy in Sri Lanka over a sudden and very large jump in domestic electricity prices.
- Facebook profits from mobile ads
- Facebook announces higher profits and revenues in the first quarter of 2013, boosted by a jump in advertising revenue.
- US central bank to keep buying bonds
- US central bank keeps interest rates steady and sticks to its quantitative easing bond-buying programme.
- Nevada opens first online poker site
- Nevada has become the first US state to allow residents to play poker online for money.
- US scientists develop smart paper
- US scientists have developed RFID-enabled paper that could be used to create banknotes that are easy to authenticate.
- Star Wars irresistible for Abrams
- Film-maker JJ Abrams says the offer to direct the new Star Wars movie was a "once in a lifetime opportunity" he could not resist, despite his prior association with major franchises.
- Terry Gilliam to make opera return
- Monty Python member turned Hollywood film-maker Terry Gilliam will return as a director for the English National Opera, it is announced.
- 'White graphene' to clean up spills
- A material called boron nitride - originally touted as useful for next-generation electronics - turns out to be a high-performance pollutant "sponge".
- Scientists make 'bug-eye' camera
- A digital camera that functions like an insect's compound eye is developed by US scientists.
- Smoking 'poses bigger risk to women'
- Women may be more vulnerable to smoking-related diseases than men, studies suggest.
- Religious 'support assisted suicide'
- A majority of British people who follow a religious faith support the law being changed to allow assisted suicide, research suggests.
- BBC Sport launches international app for Android
- BBC Sport brings you all the sports news on its free smartphone app, now available on Android as well as Apple.
- Benitez will not discuss Mourinho
- Chelsea interim manager Rafael Benitez refuses to speak about Jose Mourinho ahead of Thursday's game with FC Basel.
- 7 questions on famous meetings
- It's the bicentenary of David Livingstone, the protagonist of a very famous meeting. Test yourself on other celebrated encounters.
- Where are the world's gay athletes?
- NBA player Jason Collins made headlines this week as the first active competitor in a major American professional sport to be announce he is gay. Will other athletes across the globe follow suit?
- Pakistan's changing political landscape
- Elections in Pakistan this year are more dangerous because not a day goes by without a report of an attack on politicians or the police by one of many armed groups.
- Commonwealth faces 'real test' on Sri Lanka
- Canada leads the charge to stop Sri Lanka hosting a Commonwealth summit over human rights concerns.
- Charities criticise S Africa aid cut
- Oxfam and Action Aid have criticised the UK after ministers announced that direct aid to South Africa will stop in 2015.
- GM withdraws 'offensive' car ad
- Carmaker General Motors (GM) says it is withdrawing a TV commercial for its Chevrolet Trax four-wheel drive after its soundtrack was deemed "offensive".
- French Islamist captured in Mali
- A French Islamic convert who threatened France and other Western states is captured in Mali, allegedly after fighting on the militants' side.
- Venezuela MPs in punch-up over poll
- Fistfights break out in Venezuela's parliament over the recent disputed presidential election, leaving several lawmakers bloodied and bruised.
- Saudi flash floods leave 13 dead
- Flash floods in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have left 13 people dead. 4 more people are reported missing
- Juvenile sex offences list 'harmful'
- US authorities should end the practice of placing juveniles' names on publicly available sex offender registries, Human Rights Watch recommends.
- Street star to face rape charges
- Coronation Street star William Roache is to be charged with two counts of rape over alleged attacks on a girl in the 1960s, prosecutors say.
- Soldiers killed in Afghanistan named
- The Ministry of Defence names the three British soldiers who died after their armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
- 'DNA match' at April accused's home
- Blood found at the home of the man accused of murdering missing April Jones in a sexually motivated attack matched that of the five-year-old, a court hears.
- NHS 111 advice line 'still fragile'
- The new NHS non-emergency 111 telephone service in England is in a fragile state in a number of areas ahead of bank holiday weekend, NHS bosses admit.
- Your pictures: Pinhole photography
- Readers' pinhole photography pictures
- In pictures: The Valleys Project
- Cardiff's International Festival of Photography
- In pictures: Beltane Fire Festival
- The ancient Celtic and Pagan festival of Beltane
- In pictures: May Day action
- Events to mark International Labour Day
- In pictures: Queen greets UAE president
- The Queen welcomes the president of UAE
- Day in pictures: 30 April 2013
- Twenty-four hours of news photos: 30 April
- In pictures: Netherlands' new king
- Netherlands celebrates inauguration
- In pictures: Camouflage in Afghanistan
- Varied camouflage patterns in use by Isaf
- Amanda Knox and prison life
- How Amanda Knox’s portrait of prison life has changed
- Exploring the mafia's underground world
- Exploring the mafia's secret underground bunkers
- Has Nigeria's Niger Delta managed to buy peace?
- Has Nigeria managed to buy peace in its oil-rich creeks?
- Russia seeks new generation of 'heroes'
- Russia reinvents Soviet-era labour award
- Is 'gap yah' volunteering a bad thing?
- Why send middle-class teens to help Cambodian orphans?
- Why Libya's militias are up in arms
- Why Libya's militiamen are flexing their muscles
- Day in pictures: 1 May 2013
- Twenty-four hours of news photos from around the world
- Future highways may glow in the dark
- Glow-in-the-dark ice alerts and other road revamps
- Tunisia's last Jews at ease despite troubled past
- Tunisia's tiny Jewish community unruffled by troubled past
- VIDEO: Austin's quest to be recording centre
- America may have a new music recording capital
- Will Europe cut its interest rate?
- Interest rate cut likely as Europe yearns for elusive growth
- Guantanamo's 'longest hunger strike'
- Jonathan Beale examines the Guantanamo protest
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