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Actress Catherine Zeta Jones and the Help for Heroes charity founders are recognised on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

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Oscar-winning actress Catherine Zeta Jones is among entertainment figures honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

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High profile Scots including racing driver David Coulthard and local heroes are recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

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BBC NI presenter Jackie Fullerton and Irish cricketer Kyle McCallan also receive honours in the Queen’s Birthday List.

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Security is stepped up across Iran, witnesses say, a year after the disputed poll which brought President Ahmadinejad to power.

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Gunmen storm a rehabilitation centre in a Mexican city, shooting dead 19 people and wounding at least four others, police say.

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A 23-year-old man is jailed for life for shooting his sleeping father with a homemade gun twice in the head.

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BP’s directors plan to suspend the oil giant’s regular shareholder payment, the BBC learns, after US pressure.

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David Cameron tells BP’s chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg he is “frustrated and concerned” about the environmental damage caused by the US oil leak.

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At least 39 die as fresh fighting hits Osh in Kyrgyzstan, in the worst violence since ex-President Bakiyev was removed in April.

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The Prince of Wales visits Cumbria on the day the funeral takes place for the second victim of Derrick Bird.

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Somali pirates free 25 mainly east European sailors and their ship more than six months after seizing them.

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A man who stabbed his girlfriend to death in front of guests at a house party pleads guilty to her murder.

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Flash flooding hits two campsites in the US state of Arkansas, killing 12 people and leaving others trapped, police say.

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Lawyers representing victims of last year’s E. coli outbreak at a Surrey farm are preparing to launch a group legal action.

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