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Profits almost treble in a year at UK postal service Royal Mail, rising from £152m to £440m
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UK inflation: Lower petrol prices lead to first fall in consumer prices index since September bbc.in/14Mcdth
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UK inflation falls to 2.4% in April - consumer prices index had been 2.8% in March, @statisticsONS says
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Keep checking our special coverage for latest updates on tornado in #Oklahoma - 91 feared dead bbc.in/17Xddz7
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G4S chief executive Nick Buckles, heavily criticised over recruitment of security guards at London's Olympics, to step down
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Death toll after #Oklahoma tornado rises to 91 - Oklahoma City medical examiner's office bbc.in/14LALCM
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#Oklahoma Lieutenant Governor Todd Lamb says 20 children among the 51 confirmed dead after tornado bbc.in/17WFZjn
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US President Obama declares major disaster in #Oklahoma, with 51 confirmed dead and 120 injured after tornado bbc.in/14Lo4I2
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Guatemala's Constitutional Court annuls genocide conviction and 80-year prison sentence for former military leader Efrain Rios Montt
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Search and rescue efforts to continue through the night after #Oklahoma tornado, as death toll reaches 51 bbc.in/17WdDpo
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US death toll after tornado hit #Oklahoma City suburb of Moore is 37 & expected to rise, says state medical examiner bbc.in/17W6chV
At least 10 people reported dead after mile-wide tornado rips through suburb of Oklahoma City in US bbc.in/17VYTqH
Ray #Manzarek, keyboard player in The Doors, dies at 74
Massive tornado rips through towns near #OklahomaCity sparking fires and flattening homes bbc.in/14KmGFC via @BBCNewsUS
Widespread damage reported from large tornado strike in towns near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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#RealMadrid confirm coach Jose #Mourinho will leave the football club at end of season bbc.in/17UMTpc
FTSE 100 stock index in London closes at highest level since September 2000 bbc.in/14JnhaC - via @BBCBenThompson
"Terrorist attack" in Moscow prevented, officials say bbc.in/17Uap5T
Russian counter-terrorism agents raid group planning attack in Moscow, killing two suspects, officials say
Police search Commons office of Conservative MP Nigel Evans in relation to "serious arrestable offence" bbc.in/17U1RMh
MP's office in House of Commons searched by UK police over "serious arrestable offence" - Speaker John Bercow
Radical cleric Abu #Qatada, who faces terrorism charges in Jordan, refused bail by UK immigration tribunal bbc.in/14IZ97X
Iraqi officials say car bomb in Shia district of Baghdad kills at least 12 people - latest in series of attacks bbc.in/17TFTZT
#Yahoo confirms it's buying blogging website #Tumblr for $1.1bn (£725m) bbc.in/17TrKvA
Death toll rises to at least 42 after series of car bombs in #Baghdad, #Basra & elsewhere in #Iraq bbc.in/14IEYa6
At least 30 die in series of bombings in central & southern #Iraq, including 5 blasts in #Baghdad - officials bbc.in/17SMqUI
At least one person killed as tornadoes tear through Oklahoma - US media reports bbc.in/14H0jRh
One person confirmed dead and one still missing after blast destroyed house in Newark, UK bbc.in/17RmpF8
UK rescue teams search for two missing people after explosion destroyed house in Newark, injuring 4 bbc.in/17QVERp
UK astronaut Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) to go to International Space Station bbc.in/12mIqFL #ISS pic.twitter.com/BrQ4UCDbsr
Manager Sir Alex Ferguson's 1,500th & last game for Manchester United, against West Brom, ends 5-5 bbc.in/17PWyxj #MUFC #BBCfootball
Football: Arsenal win 1-0 at Newcastle to confirm Champions League play-off place at the expense of Spurs bbc.in/17PV2eF #afc #nufc
UK Foreign Office "urgently" investigating reports that British man arrested on suspicion of killing his two children near Lyon, France
Police in #Tunisia's capital fire tear gas to disperse supporters of radical Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia
16 killed in air strikes and heavy shelling, opposition activists say, as Syrian troops storm rebel-held town #Qusair bbc.in/14EjnQ9
#Syria State TV flash: "our heroic forces" have surrounded "terrorists" in #Qusayr, storming them from several directions.
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#Syria government troops launch major attack to retake the western rebel-held town of Qusair
Car ploughs into parade in US state of Virginia, leaving up to 60 people injured, officials say
Key figure in Pakistan's Movement for Justice party, Zahra Shahid Hussain, shot dead in Karachi on eve of re-run vote bbc.in/17LJA3I
Zahra Shahid Hussain, senior female member of Pakistan's Movement for Justice party - led by ex-cricketer Imran Khan - shot dead in Karachi.
UK PM office denies anyone in Downing Street made "swivel-eyed loon" comments about Tory activists reported in papers bbc.in/14BcfEd
Co-chairman of UK Tory Party Lord Feldman denies "Twitter rumours" he called grassroots activists "swivel-eyed loons" bbc.in/17KbA7K
Five-year-old girl who died in pool at hotel in Egypt named by family as Chloe Johnson, from Forest Hill in London bbc.in/14ALf7H
Head teachers pass motion of no confidence in UK Education Secretary Michael Gove's policies bbc.in/14ABeHI #naht2013
French President Francois Hollande signs same-sex marriage into law, after Constitutional Council rejects challenge bbc.in/17IuRXm
Sixty people hurt, five seriously, in collision between two commuter trains in US state of Connecticut, officials say bbc.in/14z8ajZ
More than 60 killed in bomb attacks apparently targeting Sunnis, in #Iraq's worst day of violence for months bbc.in/17GHLoI
At least 7 killed, more than 50 wounded after reports of bombing near restaurant in #Kandahar, #Afghanistan bbc.in/14xuSsz
At least 7 people killed in bomb attack near southern #Afghanistan city of #Kandahar, officials say
More: UK inquest into death of spy Alexander Litvinenko in doubt as coroner won't consider Russian state involvement bbc.in/17Fyxca