Two appear on terrorism charges

Two men are due to appear in court in Newry later on Monday charged with possessing explosives. The men, aged 21 and 23, were arrested on Thursday as part of a police operation against suspected dissident republicans in Armagh. As part of the same operation, police arrested three other men and two women over the weekend.

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Somali rebels ‘block UN food aid’

Islamist militants in Somalia are stopping convoys of food reaching more than 360,000 displaced people, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says. The agency says trucks travelling from the capital Mogadishu to camps in Afgoye have been stopped by armed men. Insurgent group al-Shabaab says the WFP is ruining local farming by forcing Somalis to rely on imports

Device ‘targets’ NI police station

There are reports that an explosive device has been thrown at a police station in Craigavon, County Armagh, but there are no reports of injuries. Police said Brownlow police station was targeted on Saturday evening but the building was not hit. Army bomb experts are at the scene and a nearby road has been closed

Deaths from obesity on the rise

By Emma Wilkinson Health reporter, BBC News There has been a "dramatic rise" in deaths in England in which obesity was a contributory factor, researchers say. They said death certificates showed there were 757 obesity related deaths in 2008, compared with 358 in 2000

Warning over ‘obesity time bomb’

Scotland is sitting on an "obesity time bomb" which could cost the economy £3bn a year, according to a new government report. It said cases of obesity could double, with one in four Scots classed as obese by 2030, if things do not change

Study ‘explains screening errors’

US scientists have found a way they believe may cut the number of mistakes made by medical staff looking for breast and cervical cancers.

Mrs Scandal

A BBC investigation has revealed that Iris Robinson, an MP and the wife of Northern Ireland’s first minister broke the law by not declaring her financial interest in a business deal. Who is this controversial politician Iris Robinson, nee Collins, was born in Belfast in 1949

Illness forces DUP MP to quit

The wife of Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson is quitting politics after admitting she is battling mental illness.

No ball games

Closeted in the home or watched over by ‘helicopter’ parents, children lack much of the freedom they had only 50 years ago. What changed Steve Humphries, who has made a new TV series on the way young people play, charts the rise of stranger danger.

No-go zones

By Megan Lane BBC News Magazine Five British yachtsmen held for a week in Iran after their boat drifted off course, have been released. Escaping to the open seas is no guarantee of leaving the world’s troubles behind. "The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails..

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