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A Sussex vicar found guilty of carrying out hundreds of sham marriages is jailed for four years.

China is checking the qualifications of all its commercial pilots, after it emerged that more than 200 of them lied about their experience.

A former boarding school head teacher is jailed for 21 years for sexually abusing and beating pupils.

The Spanish government says an Eta ceasefire is "insufficient" and calls on the Basque separatist group to renounce violence forever.

Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson says he is happy to meet police after fresh claims of phone tapping while he was editor of the News of the World - which he denies.

Striker Wayne Rooney arrives in Switzerland with the England squad for their Euro 2012 qualifier amid allegations about his private life.

The odds of Paul Weller winning the Mercury Prize are slashed after a bookmaker takes an "unprecedented" rush of bets backing him.

Almost two-thirds of the 160,000 homes in and around Christchurch were damaged by Saturday's earthquake, New Zealand's prime minister says.

Lebanese PM Saad Hariri says he was wrong to accuse Syria of assassinating his father - former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri.

Police in Mozambique arrest six people accused of sending text messages inciting riots over recent food price hikes.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman vows his party will block any attempt to extend the partial freeze on settlements in the West Bank.

Children on their way to school are among 17 people killed in a suicide attack on a police station in north-west Pakistan.

Severstal, Russia's largest steel producer, returned to profit in the last quarter, but missed analysts' expectations.

The Metropolitan Police will consider new evidence about allegations of phone hacking by the News of the World.

Acclaimed Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa opens a festival in his native country following a nine-month battle with throat cancer.

Germany's government agrees to extend the life span of the country's nuclear power plants by an average of 12 years, officials say.

Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle founds a new record label and will release her debut solo album, Insatiable, through Tesco supermarkets.

Severe disruption is expected on London's Underground network when the first in a series of strikes begins later.

British Airways and Iberia draw up a shortlist of 12 airlines which the firms hope to buy or merge with.

Afghanistan's central bank promises to back Kabul Bank as customers continue to take out their savings.