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The confirmed death toll from the South Korean ferry that capsized last week has passed 100, as divers recovered more bodies from the sunken hull. A total of 104 people are now known to have died, but another 198 are missing, presumed trapped inside the vessel.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has condemned the conduct of some of the crew of the ferry that sank last week, calling it "akin to murder". Ms Park said that those to blame would have to take "criminal and civil" responsibility for their actions. Divers are continuing to recover bodies from the ferry, as they gain access to more of the submerged hull.

A Canadian man who was believed to have been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, has been able to tell scientists that he is not in any pain. It's the first time an uncommunicative, severely brain-injured patient has been able to give answers clinically relevant to their care.

Keb Darge, is a Scottish DJ who plays mainly US soul and rockabilly music. He helped to pioneer the Northern Soul movement and brought it to London in the 1980s.

Music lovers and vinyl enthusiasts are gathering for the UK's seventh annual Record Store Day on Saturday. Despite many predictions of the demise of vinyl, it has never looked like disappearing. But who's still buying?

HMRC says further consultation on the plans will take place Taxpayers' personal data could be shared with private firms under plans drawn up by Revenue & Customs (HMRC). If given the go-ahead it would allow HMRC to release anonymous tax data to third parties including companies, researchers and public bodies.

Two motorcyclists have died in separate collisions with tractors in Londonderry and Fermanagh. A 28-year-old man died after his motorcycle was in collision with a tractor on the Baranailt Road, Limavady, about 12:20 BST on Saturday.

The search area for the missing MH370 plane has narrowed and will be at "a critical juncture" in the next two days, says Malaysia's acting transport minister. Hishammuddin Hussein said an underwater drone would finish searching the area within the next week.

"Brutalism is not a term to endear buildings to the public, and the label has made this form of architecture an easy target for dismissive ridicule" , writes Henrietta Billings from the Twentieth Century Society. "It's origin is contested but it may derive from the French term 'betón brut' meaning 'raw concrete'.

Greyfriars was named in the top three worst architectural eyesores in Britain by Channel 4 programme Demolition. Mary Markham, 57, who ran the office canteen, remembers plumbing issues: "All the waste was coming up through the drains and the only way to get rid of it was to have rods and push it out of the other end.

Northampton Greyfriars: Demise of the Brutalist 'mouth of hell' Greyfriars was described by commentators at its opening as a "feat of engineering" As a form of design, Brutalism has divided opinion for decades.

The recovery operation following South Korea's ferry disaster on Wednesday may take up to two months, officials say. Divers are battling strong currents in poor visibility to reach 269 missing passengers - 33 are confirmed dead. Some 174 passengers have been rescued.

Nigeria's military has admitted that most of the teenage girls abducted by suspected Islamist militants have not been freed as it earlier stated. There has been confusion about the number of girls missing after they were kidnapped from a boarding school in the north-east on Monday night. According to education authorities in Borno state, 85 girls are still missing and 44 in total have managed to escape.

The captain of a South Korean ferry that sank this week said he delayed giving evacuation orders because he feared passengers would "drift away". Lee Joon-seok, 69, was arrested with two crew members on Friday.

Hamid Aboutalebi is a senior political adviser to President Hassan Rouhani, and says he was only a translator for the hostage-takers, not a core member of the activist group President Barack Obama has signed into law a measure that would bar entry to any UN ambassador whom the US says has engaged in "terrorist activity". The law came as a response to Iran's pick of a UN envoy linked to the student militants who overran the US embassy in Tehran in 1979. The US has already denied Hamid Aboutalebi a visa, and Mr Obama said he would treat the new law as "advisory". Iran has lodged a formal complaint with the UN over the rejection. The bill that Mr Obama signed into law on Friday passed both houses of Congress handily following uproar over Mr Aboutalebi's links to the students who seized the US embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held the American diplomats hostage. Mr Aboutalebi has said that he acted merely as a translator on a couple of occasions for the hosta...

The captain of a South Korean ferry that sank this week said he delayed giving evacuation orders because he feared passengers would "drift away". Lee Joon-seok, 69, was arrested with two crew members on Friday.

Sewol captain has been arrested. The captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized and sank this week has been arrested, with two crew members. Lee Joon-seok, 69, faces charges including negligence of duty and violation of maritime law. Amid suggestions he delayed evacuation, Mr Lee said that he feared passengers would "drift away" if they left the ferry "without proper judgement". Efforts to find the 268 people still missing have been hampered by low visibility and strong currents. Divers early on Saturday saw what appeared to be bodies in a part of the ship but visibility remains poor and none were retrieved. Twenty-eight people are now known to have died in the disaster, with 179 rescued. The ferry Sewol was sailing from Incheon, in the north-west, to the southern resort island of Jeju. It capsized and sank within two hours. Investigations are focusing on the sharp turn the vessel took before it started listing and whether an evacuation order could have saved l...

Robin Williams transformed into Scottish nanny Mrs Doubtfire A sequel to hit 1993 comedy Mrs Doubtfire is underway, with Robin Williams set to star and Elf writer David Berenbaum writing the script.

The Bluefin-21 searches the sea floor by creating a sonar map A mini-submarine searching for the missing Malaysian plane has completed a full mission at its third attempt. Two previous missions to scour the floor of the Indian Ocean for wreckage were cut short by technical problems.

An Irish priest who surprised wedding guests with his version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah says he is flabbergasted that it has received more than 28 million views online. Fr Ray Kelly has sung the song with new, marriage-themed lyrics at weddings for four years, but his performance earlier this month travelled around the world. "This morning,