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Three men are found guilty of a gay hate crime after they handed out leaflets calling for homosexual people to be given the death penalty.

Counter terrorist police halt a community centre meeting in Cardiff over fears of a link to a banned Islamist group, Muslims Against Crusades.

Several people are reported to have been killed in a series of explosions in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.

Passengers from the cruise ship that sank off the coast of Italy are launching a class-action lawsuit in the US against the vessel's owners, the BBC learns.

Staff at the Royal Hospital neo-natal unit in Belfast are trying to find the source of the bacterial infection linked to the deaths of three babies.

The Scottish government is preparing to drop its opposition to the UK Electoral Commission supervising an independence referendum.

Some of the families of those still missing from the Costa Concordia have visited the wreck, while the rescue effort was hampered yet again as the sea threatened to shift the ship from the rocks.

A paedophile from Merseyside who was the first person extradited from China to the UK after he skipped bail on a false passport is jailed.

Soul and blues singer Etta James, best known for the tracks At Last and for I'd Rather Go Blind, has died aged 73.

The Attorney General's Office says it cannot review the sentence of a Stockport man who escaped prison after admitting grievous bodily harm.

Queens Park Rangers captain Joey Barton says former boss Neil Warnock only has himself to blame for his sacking.

Brian Shivers, one of the men accused of murdering two soldiers at Massereene Barracks, is found guilty on all charges, while Colin Duffy is acquitted.

The Turkish foreign minister asks France's Senate to reject a bill criminalising genocide denial, as it moves closer to becoming law.

City council bosses ask the media to continue to refer to Newcastle United's ground as St James' Park.

Oil production is suspended in South Sudan amid a dispute over how to share revenues with the government in Khartoum.

Police in Londonderry believe dissident republicans were responsible for two bomb attacks on Thursday night.

Staff at the Royal Hospital neo-natal unit in Belfast are trying to find the source of the bacterial infection linked to the deaths of three babies.

A proposal to bring in Army medics to cover a shortage of doctors at a hospital's emergency department is criticised by MPs.

Legislation which will make it easier for small venues to host live music has been cleared in the House of Commons.

The search of the Costa Concordia cruise ship has resumed after bad weather caused a further delay to the operation.