MPs back calls for a fresh parliamentary investigation into allegations of phone hacking by journalists at the News of the World.

Scottish ministers and opposition politicians join forces in a bid to ensure the future of two Royal Navy aircraft carriers.

The Commons is to vote for the first time on whether UK troops should remain in Afghanistan - almost nine years after the war started.

A Tube train was sent into the path of another train during Wednesday morning's rush hour, it emerges.

The RSPCA appeals for information after the bodies of seven dead dogs are found at stables, including one who was probably buried alive.

At least eight people are killed as a car bomb explodes at Somalia's main airport in Mogadishu, officials say.

The popular Islam Today website, run by the Saudi cleric Salman al-Awdah, has closed its section offering thousands of Islamic religious rulings.

President Obama defends his opposition to extending Bush-era tax cuts for wealthier people and criticises what he calls Republican obstruction.

A lorry kills two men as they walk along the M6 close to Sandbach in Cheshire.

Taliban leader Mullah Omar says his fighters are on the verge of victory in Afghanistan and the Nato-led campaign has been "a complete failure".

The murder rate has fallen by 8.6% over the past year in South Africa, the latest statistics show.

Thousands of people in China are to have their electricity restored after an order for enforced power cuts to meet energy-saving goals is reversed.

Cuba's Fidel Castro says the Cuban model no longer works in the latest excerpt from an interview with a US journalist.

Pakistan bowler Wahab Riaz will be questioned by Scotland Yard on 14 September in relation to allegations of corruption.

India's first caste-based census since 1931 will take place next year, the cabinet announces.

Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe is ruled out for at least six weeks because of an ankle injury.

BAE Systems announces it is to axe almost 1,000 jobs across the UK, with 740 to go from five sites in England.

A Strabane taxi driver picks up a pipe bomb and takes it to waste ground.

Health officials are investigating a second death which is being linked to a Legionnaires' disease outbreak in south Wales.

US President Barack Obama says a small church's plans to burn the Koran are a "recruitment bonanza" for al-Qaeda.