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Nine people, including four foreigners, are killed when a light aircraft crashes after taking off from Fox Glacier in New Zealand, say reports.

BP replaces the blowout preventer that failed to stem the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well and says it has paid $8bn (£5.2bn) in damage costs.

The Modified Toy Orchestra is a band made up of five musicians - and 48 tweaked toy instruments.

Israeli and Palestinian talks seen from the inside

Author Ian McEwan talks to Matt Stadlen about the exercise of writing, the importance of long, moody walks, the "thinginess" of James Joyce and getting to grips with quantum mechanics.

One of Scotland's largest councils - North Lanarkshire - warns that it may have to cut more than 1,000 jobs.

The spending review's political arm-wrestling contest

Papers consider phone hack claims

Talks to form a coalition government in the Netherlands collapse as the leader of the far-right Freedom Party Geert Wilders walks out.

Downing Street's head of communications, Andy Coulson, is safe in his job despite phone hacking claims surrounding the News of the World newspaper, says a senior government source.

The former Pakistan cricket captain, Imran Khan, has said that if players are found guilty of spot fixing, they should not be given a life ban, which some officials are demanding.

Questions over halal meat as market booms in France

A poll commissioned by Ed Miliband's leadership campaign finds voters are less likely to vote Labour if there is not a shift from New Labour policies.

Comic Eddie Kadi can command vast crowds at his live shows. Why has he attracted so little mainstream attention?

Fewer children are learning to play a musical instrument than in their parents' generation, a survey suggests.

A fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a Tennessee Islamic centre was arson, investigators say.

Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read.

A state of emergency is declared in Christchurch after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes New Zealand's South Island.

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the BBC that radical Islam is the greatest threat facing the world.

Nigeria's economy will hit double-digit growth by the end of 2011 or early 2012, the country's finance minister says.