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Andrew North in Bangladesh reports for BBC Newsnight on the human cost of cheap clothing and, using concealed cameras, reveals some factories are using child labour.

Are you ever too old to be the face of a designer brand?

A nuclear submarine is evacuated after a fire breaks out during maintenance work in Devonport dockyard.

Can you finally consign your files to the shredder?

Millions of stink bugs are emerging from their hibernation, a sign of spring that strikes fear into farmers across the US. Could a tiny wasp be the ultimate weapon in the battle against the foreign bug invasion?

Carmaker Hyundai apologises and pulls an online advert that depicted a man attempting to kill himself with exhaust fumes in its new model.

Chelsea boss Rafael Benitez feels his players should still be wary of Basel in the Europa League second leg.

US intelligence agencies believe "to some degree of varying confidence" that Syria has used chemical weapons against rebels, the White House says.

Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres said Timothy Hallet Tracy was paying right-wing youth to hold violent protests in the aftermath of the elections narrowly won by Nicolas Maduro, the late Hugo Chavez's chosen successor. Tracy's family says he was making a documentary.

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Robert Milkins holds his nerve to beat Australia's former champion Neil Robertson in round one of the World Championship.

Imagine having to deliver a tribute for someone you've openly excoriated for years. That was essentially the task President Obama had before him in his speech at the dedication ceremony for former President George W. Bush's presidential library in Dallas.

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Regulators are warning some of the nation's largest banks to stop offering loans that are hard to distinguish from those given out by storefront payday lenders. The banks have been offering high-interest-rate, short-term loans to customers with direct deposit as an advance on their paychecks.

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A buyer pays 13,720 euros for a lock of hair belonging to the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph in an auction in Vienna.

Police charge a 15-year-old boy with murdering a teenager on a bus in north London.

Some housing experts say the city's zoning code has discouraged the building of affordable housing by requiring that all apartments be at least 400 square feet. The city is interested in finding ways to rewrite the rules. An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York looks at ways to fix the city's housing shortage.

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A former US government employee is accused of recruiting US citizens in sensitive national security posts to spy for Cuba.

David Luiz scores an injury-time free-kick as Chelsea win their Europa League semi-final first leg tie against Basel.

Thailand's Dechawat Poomjaeng is penalised a frame for fouling three times in a row in the second round of the World Championship.