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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia pledge to help stabilise Lebanon.

The chancellor says the MoD, not the Treasury, will have to pay the £20bn cost of renewing the UK's nuclear deterrent, putting further pressure on the defence budget.

Wildlife authorities capture a 400lb (181kg) mother grizzly bear and two cubs who they believe killed one camper and injured two.

Arizona lodges an appeal against a federal court's decision to block parts of an anti-immigration law hours before it came into effect.

Plans to reform A-levels could put students off maths and lead to university department closures, an academic body warns.

The Mexican government says security forces have killed leading drug trafficker Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel.

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates calls in the FBI to help investigate the leaking of 90,000 classified papers related to the Afghan war.

A combination pill of two drugs used to treat addiction may help people lose weight, say US researchers.

The US senator, who is to chair a congressional inquiry into the Lockerbie bomber release, tells the BBC he may send investigators to the UK.

The right of women to choose whether they have home births is being questioned by a leading medical journal.

Delhi polishes up British accent in time for Games

The Scottish government is told to release more details on the staging of meetings of its Council of Economic Advisers.

The public will be able to veto their council tax bills in England if charges are above an agreed limit, ministers will announce.

Colourful 75-year history of the famous book publisher

Researchers identify rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars.

With nearly one in five people unemployed, the economic future looks bleak in Puerto Rico. Maria Hinojosa has this special report.

Good weather and football's World Cup is thought to have given a boost to beer sales in the UK, industry figures suggest.

Police in California seize $1.7bn worth of marijuana in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Human remains are found in County Monaghan by a group searching for one of the Disappeared, Charles Armstrong.