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A wet start for the Queen on her Canadian tour

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A UK pavilion built for the World Expo in Shanghai wins a prestigious international architecture award.

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The UK is to announce an inquiry into claims its security services were complicit in torture, the BBC understands.

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Some Welsh universities are to face closure, Education Minister Leighton Andrews has announced.

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A High Court judge rules that peace protesters who have been camping in Parliament Square must be evicted.

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Men linked to what is alleged to be the UK’s largest Ponzi scheme are ordered to pay £115m to the financial regulator.

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Europe’s ice explorer space mission begins to deliver on its promise to make high-precision radar measurements of polar ice.

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Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga has an operation to remove fluid on the brain, doctors say, and is recovering well in hospital.

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The Rugby Football League fines Castleford £40,000 after fans aim homophobic abuse towards Crusaders winger Gareth Thomas.

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Tsvetana Pironkova puts five-time champion Venus Williams out of Wimbledon in the quarter-finals.

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Lewis Hamilton accuses Fernando Alonso of sour grapes as their bitter rivalry resurfaces following Sunday’s contentious European Grand Prix.

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Media mogul Oprah Winfrey climbs back to the top of the Forbes Celebrity 100 after being deposed by Angelina Jolie last year.

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Russian ‘spies’ arrested in US posed little threat

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Taking police off the beat to… keep police on the beat

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Roy Hodgson is set to be appointed Liverpool’s new manager by Thursday, BBC Sport understands.

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