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LONDON German automobile maker BMW will build three-cylinder engines for its all-new i8 hybrid sports car at its factory near Birmingham, ensuring that key next-generation automotive technology is being produced in the UK.

The growing trend for dog ownership in Japan has reportedly spawned an 8 billion-pound-a-year industry that offers adored pooches the sort of over-the-top luxuries usually reserved for the wealthiest humans.

The former Egyptian president has been listed in critical condition.

A training aircraft's pilot died and a passenger was seriously injured after the machine crashed in Czechia, according to Czech news agency CTK.

Republicans have scored a major victory in Wisconsin as Governor Scott Walker comfortably escaped a crucial recall vote that had brought political activists to the barricades.

Police in Paris have been asked by Interpol to scour the city for a man who has been described as a psychopathic killer.

For the first time in nearly two-and-half decades, Myanmar opposition leader and pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi will make her first foreign trip when she visits Thailand next week for a regional conference.

Government officials say the Pakistani doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for treason.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee says that Marxists and Maoists are plotting to kill her in league with the Pakistani intelligence, North Korea, Venezuela and Hun-gary.