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A man dies after he was found trapped under a caravan in Kilkeel, County Down.

Chile reopens its main border crossing with Peru after closing it earlier this week when rain washed landmines onto the road.

The four Republican candidates prepare to spar in a crucial TV debate days ahead of two key primaries in the US states of Arizona and Michigan.

Labour leader Ed Miliband tells David Cameron he risks making NHS reform "his poll tax" - in noisy Commons clashes over the health bill.

Ethiopian and Somali troops have taken a strategic stronghold of Islamist militants in south-western Somalia.

Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell is knocked out in the first round of the World Match Play Championship by South Korea's YE Yang.

A trial verdict for Egyptian ex-President Hosni Mubarak, accused of ordering the killing of protesters in the revolution that ousted him, is set for 2 June.

AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighbourhoods of the city of Homs on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists.

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At least 49 people have been killed in a train accident in Buenos Aires.

A man has been charged with murdering a vicar in South Gloucestershire and a retired teacher in Worcestershire.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai urges Afghans "not to resort to violence" after protests over the burning of the Koran at a US airbase near Kabul.

The White House expresses disappointment on the barring of UN nuclear inspectors from a site in Iran, calling the visit a "failure" for Tehran.

Police search for a woman seen leaving a library in Kent where a girl, believed to be two or three years old, is abandoned.

According to the UN, no European country has born the brunt of the extreme weather more than the Ukraine, where 112 people died.

The Royal Navy selects South Korean firm Daewoo for a £452m deal to build four new fuel tankers.

Celtic ease to victory over bottom side Dunfermline to go 20 points clear of Rangers at the top of the SPL.

A commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, kills 49 people and leaves at least 600 injured, officials say.

A commuter train crash in Buenos Aires

The New York Police Department carried out covert surveillance of Muslims in nearby Newark, New Jersey, police records reveal.

Nine men involved in the UVF supergrass trial in Belfast are acquitted of the murder of UDA leader Tommy English.