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An organisation that sends writers into prison to work with offenders is among arts groups that fear their funding is about to be cut. But can arts for prisoners save the government money?
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Jodie Connor has traded a job with Greater Manchester police for a career in music. She talks about her friendship with Tinchy Stryder and why she has a back up career if singing does not work out.
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The way crabs, lobsters and spiders walk are helping to inspire novel ways to get robots moving around.
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US President Barack Obama's support for military intervention in Libya could put him on the wrong side of American public opinion, the BBC's Andrew North says.
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Libyan rebels press on west to the town of Brega after recapturing the strategic oil town of Ajdabiya from Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's forces.
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It is estimated more than 250,000 people from across Britain have taken part in a demonstration in central London against government spending cuts.
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At least 10 people are killed after Syrian police open fire on people protesting against the deaths of anti-government demonstrators in Deraa, witnesses say.
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Critics give their verdict on the Pet Shop Boys' first foray into ballet, a dance work based on Hans Christian Andersen's story The Most Incredible Thing.
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Long queues are reported at polling stations across Egypt for a referendum on constitutional reforms.
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Swiss banking giant UBS says it is being investigated by US regulators for allegedly manipulating the interbank lending rate Libor.
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Japanese television showed stranded residents in the city of Kesennuma being rescued from rooftops after the city was engulfed by the tsunami.
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As protesters demonstrate in Libya after Friday prayers, BBC News website readers in the country are giving updates on the situation there.
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An elderly child molester has been surgically castrated as a condition of his release from prison, Louisiana police say.
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Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus launches a legal battle to challenge his sacking as head of the Grameen Bank he founded.
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Electricity and water are cut to northern Ivory Coast, where most residents oppose incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, the UN confirms.
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Do Americans understand some British regional accents better than others?
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Less than a quarter of Americans support making significant cuts to Social Security or Medicare to tackle the country's mounting deficit, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, illustrating the challenge facing lawmakers who want voter buy
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Piers Morgan responds to criticism from his predecessor, Larry King, that he is not "dangerous" enough on his much-hyped US talk show.
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Four policemen and two civilians are shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Colombia as they unload a helicopter carrying cash to a bank.
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Composer and music editor John Strauss, who worked on films including Oscar best picture winner Amadeus, dies at the age of 90 in Los Angeles.
