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Star Wars Day is celebrated every year on May 4

London bullion market to be shut on 5 May for bank holiday.

Farage rules out alliance but apparently does follow Wilders on Twitter

A 116-year-old woman living in Peru says she is older than the officially recognised oldest person in the world, Japan's Misao Okawa

Militants from outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) storm Muslim villages

People seen jumping from trade union building as protesters clashed.

World Bank loan could encourage others to invest in Pakistan's creaking energy sector

Village buried under mud and rocks as torrential rainfall causes mountain section to cave.

Ukraine's interim president says operation not moving as fast as hoped in eastern city.

New York Fire Department helping passengers out through drain in Queens

Russia's Energy Minister Alexander Novak said Gazprom could cut supplies to Ukraine as early as this summer.

Street fight erupts in southern port city with both sides hurling stones and Molotov cocktails

US Reports on Terrorism report classifies vandalism by 'violent extremists' against Palestinians as terrorism.

The IMF chief denies that loans come in exchange for structural reform, but the Ukraine bailout shows she is wrong.

The aircraft made mid-air contact with another flight over Cambodia, but report details patchy

Pancreatic cancer blow for LA Clippers owner admonished by Barack Obama and hit by $2.5m fine.

Muslim scholar's research contradicts claim that Koran encourages disparity between men and women

Satanist group wants Lucifer statue erected at Oklahoma state building to counter Ten Commandments monument

Ethiopia's largest ethnic group protest against Addis Ababa expansion plan.

Founder of Ramsay Health Care makes Australia's biggest singer charitable donation ever to his foundation

Pro-Assad forces and rebels put down weapons in key battleground.

UCL and Imperial College London researchers unveil hidden patterns in Eurovision Song Contest voting.

Sudden unexplained replacement and disappearance of Choe Ryong-hae as head of General Political Bureau sparks alarm

Resona Bank worker committed suicide after losing 155 million yen

Physicists believe the Egyptians wet the desert sand, which made it easier to pull a sledge with the stones.

Lebanese Socialist Party leader calls for cannabis cultivation to be legalised to boost farmers' incomes.

Australian head of search operation Angus Houston says hunt for missing Boeing 777 could take up to a year.

Russian president Vladimir Putin sends representative to southeast Ukraine for talks on pulling back conflict

Prince flirting with women on nightclub manager pal's stag do following split from Cressida Bonas.