Cubans waited in long lines to step on board the Russian destroyer Admiral Chabanenko, which sailed into Havana Bay on Friday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.

The first Soviet nuclear powered submarine, the K-3, later named Leninsky Komsomol, was delivered to the Soviet Navy December 17 1958.

Russia is to hold another test launch of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile in two days time, a source in the Russian defense industry said on Monday.

Cambridge University is facing accusations of "dumbing down" after offering to lend its name to qualifications in garden history and creative writing.

Watershedding, Oldham, 1982. &#169 Don McPhee/The Guardian, 1982

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Southwark Council has recommended that the Livesey Children's Museum, which closed in February 2008, should be handed over to the Theatre Peckham Group.

Research data has revealed that Museum Studies at the University of Leicester has the greatest cluster of world-leading researchers compared with any discipline in any university in the UK.

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Work on Belfast's new showpiece £18.8m (€19.83m) museum arts centre will begin next April, it was confirmed today.

Celine Cawley's husband is due in court in Dublin again tomorrow charged with her murder.

The Financial Regulator is to appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Economic Regulatory Affairs in January, it was confirmed this afternoon.

A meningitis warning has been sent to pupils at a school after a 16-year-old classmate died from the disease.

There has been another "tiger" style robbery in the North with a shop worker forced to hand over money in County Tyrone last night.

Gardaí in Co Longford are investigating a robbery at a bank in Edgeworthstown this morning.

A pregnant woman was airlifted off an Irish ferry on its way to France today after going into labour six weeks early.

One in Four is adding its voice to calls for the Bishop of Cloyne to resign after a report found that child abuse allegations in the Cork diocese were not dealt with properly.

The late Government minister Conor Cruise O'Brien was a modern-day prophet who wasn't afraid to pay the price for his controversial views, his funeral mass heard today.