• At least 26 people are killed by car bombs in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Basra, police and medical officials say.
  • BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Eight car bomb blasts in mainly Shi'ite districts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed at least 20 people on Monday, police and medics said. Earlier, at least 10 people were killed in two car bomb explosions i...
  • Militants killed at least 10 Iraqi policemen in a series of attacks on checkpoints in the West of the country, police and local officials confirm.    
  • Transport company FirstGroup has announced a £615m rights issue in a bid reduce its debt after its full year profit dropped by over a third.
  • LONDON (Reuters) - Bus and rail operator FirstGroup said it would raise 615 million pounds through a rights issue to pay down debt after its full-year profit fell more than a third.
  • The Chelsea Flower Show celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.
  • The Syrian army claims to have seized the strategic town of Qusair after reports that Hezbollah fighters helped it attack rebel positionsMatthew WeaverGuardian readers     
  • Fighting rages in Syria's town of Qusair after government troops launched a major operation to seize the strategic rebel stronghold.
  • AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian troops supported by Hezbollah militants launched an offensive to retake a major town near Lebanon from rebels on Sunday, the heaviest fighting yet involving Lebanese armed group, opposition activists said....
  • A British father is expected to be formally charged with slitting the throats of his two young children as he appears in court in France.    
  • A 48-year-old British man living in France is expected to be formally charged later with killing his two children, aged five and 10.
  • A British man named as Julian Stevenson is due to appear in court after reportedly confessing to murdering his two children.
  • Man, 48, reportedly held over deaths of children aged five and 10 after ex-wife saw him rollerskating away covered in blood A British man has been arrested after two children were found with their throats cut, and he was seen flee...
  • A man of British origin has been arrested in France in connection with the deaths of his two children, media reports say.
  • The internet giant's acquisition of the micro-blogging site would attract younger users and bring a social element to the company.
  • Yahoo's board approves a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for $1.1bn (£725m), US media reports say.
  • Reports claim board has approved move to buy blogging platform site that could catapult Yahoo back into top flight web firms Marissa Mayer, the former Googler who is now chief executive of Yahoo, is poised to create yet another no...
  • Thein Sein, Burma's president, becomes the first leader of his country in nearly half a century to visit the White House today.    
  • Getting the first ever British astronaut aboard the mission to the International Space Agency is a "massive coup" for the country, experts have said.    
  • The UK astronaut Tim Peake has been given a date to fly to the International Space Station (ISS).
  • Tim Peake's selection to fly on the International Space Station is seen as a major boost for the UK's space industry.
  • Former Army helicopter pilot Major Tim Peake, 41, chosen from 8,000 for five-month mission to space station.    
  • UK astronaut Tim Peake is given a date to fly to the International Space Station, but the mission is not expected to take place before 2015.
  • DAX hits record highs and FTSE 100 reaches highest level since October 2007, but can it last?Graeme Wearden     
  • David Cameron is facing the prospect of defeat in the Commons when MPs vote on plans to legalise gay marriage.
  • Conservative Party divisions over legalising same-sex marriage in England and Wales are set to be exposed again when the plans return to the Commons later.
  • LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron is "losing control of his party", Conservative Party grandee Geoffrey Howe said on Sunday, as a row raged over whether a close aide to Cameron had labelled grassroots activis...
  • The Conservative Party is "united" on the main issues about Britain's relationship with Europe, the health secretary says, amid claims the PM is losing control of his backbenchers.
  • A 63-year-old man has died in a fire at a top floor flat in University Street in south Belfast.
  • The Royal Navy's former flagship, the Ark Royal, sets sail for the final time, bound for a scrap yard in Turkey.
  • Residents in the Surrey borough of Elmbridge, home to Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, paid the most in tax per head in the UK - 200 times more in total than Google.    
  • Homes have been reduced to rubble and cars left in pieces after tornadoes swept through Kansas and Oklahoma, destroying everything in their path.    
  • A crowdsourcing campaign has raised more than $73,000 (£48,000) to help buy a video of Rob Ford, the mayor of Toronto, allegedly smoking crack cocaine.    
  • The bodies of two people have been found in a terraced house destroyed by a gas explosion, Nottinghamshire Police said.    
  • The search for a person missing after a fatal explosion at a Nottinghamshire house will continue later, after the building is made safe.
  • A man has been killed in a suspected gas explosion at a terraced house, and one person is still missing, police have said.
  • House on Wright street in Newark severely damaged in blast, with cars hit by debris and structural damage to other houses A man was killed in a gas explosion which destroyed a terraced house on Sunday, Nottinghamshire police said....
  • NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is seeking to build trust with India on his first foreign trip since taking office, which comes just a few weeks after a military standoff between the Asian giants on their ill-defined border in the Himalayan mountains.
  • China's Premier Li Keqiang pledges to build trust with India where he is meeting his counterpart Manmohan Singh, after a recent flare-up in border tensions.
  • The risk of developing bunions - bony growths on the big toe - is linked to your family, not your shoes, a US study has shown.
  • Tornadoes cause widespread destruction across the US midwest.    
  • Life is supposed to begin at 40, but it is the over 55s who are the happiest, new research has found.    

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