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Three more cases of Legionnaires' disease are identified as health officials close a cooling tower in Merthyr Tydfil until it is cleaned and disinfected.

A man convicted of battering and strangling a vulnerable young woman in County Antrim is to appeal the guilty verdict.

A lifeboat crew member who won a bravery award for a daring rescue was claiming disability benefit at the same time, a court is told.

High levels of the stress hormone cortisol are closely linked to death from cardiovascular disease, a Dutch study has found.

Volunteers are calling on the MS Society not to abandon four respite care centres in York, Surrey, Warwickshire and East Lothian

Three men are jailed for a sex attack on a woman which only came to light when the victim saw footage of it on a mobile phone.

Danish police hold a man injured by a small blast at a Copenhagen hotel amid reports he was a would-be suicide bomber.

Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones tells his party conference that after next year's assembly elections he wants to be first minister of Wales.

At least four people have been killed in an explosion which tore through a town near San Francisco, officials say.

US President Barack Obama has said that progress in pulling the American economy out of recession has been "painfully slow".

A nine-year-old Indian boy who mistakenly ended up on a cross-country train adventure is reunited with his family - four months later.

Iran rejects claims by dissident groups that it has almost completed a secret uranium-enrichment facility near Tehran.

The US Department of Defense is trying to stop the distribution of a book by a former intelligence officer.

A 22-year-old man is arrested after an eight-hour police siege at a flat in the west end of Glasgow.

Leading artists including Tracey Emin, David Hockney and Damien Hirst join a campaign against proposed government cuts to arts funding.

Greens celebrate first MP but will their success continue?

Anti-American rallies sweep Afghanistan over plans, now on hold, by a small US church to stage an "International Burn a Koran Day".

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admits he is concerned how Theo Walcott's latest injury setback will affect the England international on a mental level.

President Barack Obama is holding a press conference in the Rose Garden.

New Zealand delays plans to lift no-go zones in quake-hit Christchurch after major aftershocks rock the city.