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The Welsh Liberal Democrats have rediscovered their courage but the party is at a crucial turning point, their leader will tell the party's spring conference.

Semi-nomadic Sami people feel modern world pressures

Twitter accounts for news programmes by US broadcaster CBS are hacked by a group proclaiming support for the Syrian government.

Footage of the moments leading up to the arrest of the Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been released by the Massachusetts State Police.

Hundreds of extra police officers will be on duty at the London Marathon in a bid to reassure runners and spectators after the Boston bombings.

Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov tops the annual Sunday Times list of the wealthiest people in Britain and Ireland with a £13.3bn fortune.

The Italian parliament has re-elected the 87-year-old president, Giorgio Napolitano, for an unprecedented second term.

Scrutiny falls on FBI over Boston suspect

Homes in Lenten Pool, Denbigh, are evacuated for a second night running as explosives experts search a property after a man is arrested.

Secretary of State John Kerry steps up US aid to Syria's rebels and tells a Friends of Syria meeting there must be a peaceful transition in the country.

Authorities in Texas say it is safe for some evacuees to begin returning to homes after a huge blast at a fertiliser plant which killed 14 people.

An avalanche in the US state of Colorado kills five back-country snowboarders with a sixth surviving, according to officials.

The electoral commission in Venezuela says an audit of last Sunday's disputed presidential vote will not affect Nicolas Maduro's victory.

A fire, described as small, breaks out at a nuclear power plant on Teesside but no-one is injured.

The US has pledged a further $123m in non-lethal aid to Syria's opposition after a meeting in Istanbul of the pro-opposition Friends of Syria.

Gunfire injured two people and scattered a crowd of thousands in Denver Saturday. The annual pot celebration is the first since recent laws in Colorado and Washington made marijuana legal for recreational use.

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In West, Texas, some of the town's citizens whose homes were damaged by Wednesday's massive fertilizer plant explosion are returning to their homes Saturday, after authorities declared parts of the area safe. But a curfew will be in place, and other areas remain off-limits.

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A man is shot and killed in Southampton while police arrest a 41-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman.

After economists admit a spreadsheet miscalculation in a study used to support austerity policies, writer Colm O'Regan pays tribute to the ubiquity of Microsoft Excel.