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An apparent sighting of a ghost causes a queue of up to 60 cars to form outside a County Tyrone town.

Commentators in the Palestinian press are united in dismay at the Israeli operation in Gaza.

A 17-year-old is found guilty of killing another teenager in Angus, but is cleared of murder.

Four pedestrians are injured when a bus driver collapses and the vehicle crashes into a hotel in Shropshire.

Mumbai resident Sanvar Oberoi was near the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway station - one of the targets - when the attacks began.

BBC Scotland's David McDaid meets football legend Diego Maradona at Glasgow Airport

Rap star Kanye West criticises paparazzi photographers following his brief arrest after an incident in Newcastle.

An alleged football hooligan was innocently caught up in train brawl with rival supporters, a court hears.

A bus driver is found guilty of murdering his 19-year-old son after an argument in a Norwich flat.

John McCain launched a flurry of attacks on Barack Obama, some on target, during Wednesday's debate but will they be enough to win over undecided voters, wonders Newsweek's Andrew Romano.

A 68-year-old former cross-country runner gives would-be thieves a run for their money in Torquay.

A man suffers head injuries, a broken nose, damaged teeth and fractures to his cheek bone and eye socket in a street attack.

A teenager tells a jury in a video interview how he saw his sister fatally stab their mother's boyfriend.

A bus driver killed his 19-year-old son in a Norwich flat after an argument, a court hears.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was stabbed during a fight in Ruchazie, Glasgow

A new film version of Brideshead Revisited is about to have its premiere, but why are we so taken with a story about a troubled aristocratic family?

Ontario police charge a man over a knife attack that left a fellow bus passenger needing hospital treatment.

Sliman Agazzaf dreamt of a better life in Spain, but his hopes were shattered when he drowned trying to cross from Morocco in 2003, reports the BBC's Rafael Estefania.

A 14-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in east London when he and his sister were attacked is identified.

Grant Wilkinson thought it was the perfect plan - to convert replica guns into live firing weapons in one of the most unlikely of locations.

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