Prosecutors say a Frenchwoman has admitted killing eight newborn babies after remains are found in a northern village but says her husband knew nothing.

7/29/2010 7:32:30 PM

Children's heart surgery should remain suspended at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital where four babies died, a report says.

7/29/2010 5:17:11 PM

David Cameron says it is important to "speak frankly" after criticism of his comments about Pakistan's record on tackling terrorism.

7/29/2010 8:20:14 PM

People reaching the age of 65 will no longer be forced to retire from October next year, under plans announced by the government.

7/29/2010 11:59:50 AM

Fugitive Polly Peck tycoon Asil Nadir, who fled to northern Cyprus in 1993, begins a legal bid to be granted bail ahead of a UK theft trial.

7/29/2010 5:24:02 PM

A Sussex vicar is found guilty of carrying out hundreds of sham marriages over four years to bypass immigration law.

7/29/2010 4:43:41 PM

About 140 people are feared dead as a boat capsizes on a river in the western Bandundu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

7/29/2010 5:32:33 PM

Firefighters are tackling a major blaze that started in a bread oven at Warburtons bakery in Bolton.

7/29/2010 7:12:23 PM

The bodies of two British soldiers killed trying to rescue a wounded colleague and a third killed by suspected 'friendly fire' are repatriated to the UK from Afghanistan.

7/29/2010 5:36:26 PM

A "ground-breaking" Court of Appeal judgement removes the protection previously given to thousands of people in divorce proceedings.

7/29/2010 5:51:29 PM

The skeleton of a man previously thought to be Tokyo's oldest living male resident has been discovered in his family home.

7/29/2010 6:24:17 PM

David Cameron rejects calls for the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond, part of the Crown Jewels for 150 years, to be returned to India.

7/29/2010 11:39:06 AM

Amateur video captures footage of a mother bear saving her cub from a fishing net in Anchorage, Alaska.

7/29/2010 4:55:46 AM

Britain's Phillips Idowu takes triple jump gold as Martyn Bernard wins high jump bronze at the European Championships in Barcelona.

7/29/2010 5:01:03 PM

Liverpool travel to Macedonia for their Europa League third qualifying round tie, the first competitive match under new manager Roy Hodgson.

7/29/2010 7:31:49 PM

Eoin Morgan makes a superb maiden Test century as England reach an imposing 331-4 after day one of the first Test against Pakistan at Trent Bridge.

7/29/2010 7:06:09 PM

Felipe Massa insists he is not playing second fiddle to Fernando Alonso, despite controversy surrounding the Ferrari drivers in last weekend's German Grand Prix.

7/29/2010 4:51:16 PM

Lewis Hamilton insists there are no team orders governing how he and McLaren team-mate Jenson Button race.

7/29/2010 7:15:20 PM

A Cheshire businessman accused of killing a man has charges against him dropped - the third time he has been cleared of murder.

7/29/2010 6:55:06 PM

A couple who murdered a three-year-old boy in their care, inflicting more than 70 injuries on him, are jailed for life.

7/29/2010 1:19:12 PM

Up to 60,000 people working in the public sector in Scotland could lose their jobs, according to an independent review commissioned by ministers.

7/29/2010 1:49:37 PM

Convicted serial killer Peter Tobin is questioned by police in Edinburgh in connection with serious sexual crimes.

7/29/2010 12:45:53 PM

An agreement on the future of the Maze Prison site is reached by the NI first and deputy first ministers, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness.

7/29/2010 8:35:51 PM

Human remains are found in County Monaghan by a group searching for one of the Disappeared, Charles Armstrong.

7/29/2010 7:06:36 PM

Fundamental changes will be made in the way S4C is run after the sudden departure of chief executive Iona Jones, says the chair of the board which oversees it.

7/29/2010 6:17:26 PM

Electronics giant Sharp says a "substantial" number of jobs will be created following a £30m expansion of its Wrexham factory.

7/29/2010 6:23:48 PM

President Bashir's NCP says the referendum on south Sudan's secession cannot happen until the internal border is decided.

7/29/2010 4:26:28 PM

The Zimbabwe Football Association suspends chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya over match-fixing allegations.

7/29/2010 2:36:54 PM

Rescue teams in north-east China are working to retrieve 3,000 barrels of chemicals washed into a major river, state media say.

7/29/2010 2:00:44 PM

Officials investigate damage to a Japanese oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, amid reports of a collision or an attack.

7/29/2010 1:45:34 PM

Russian security forces at Moscow's Domodedovo airport arrest a man suspected of trying to hijack a plane.

7/29/2010 5:39:49 PM

Greek police fire tear gas to disperse hundreds of lorry drivers protesting in Athens against a government order to end their strike.

7/29/2010 11:48:31 AM

Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas, who was on hunger strike for more than 130 days, is released from hospital.

7/29/2010 8:20:37 PM

Paraguayan police shoot dead a reputed rebel leader as he resists arrest in the north of the country, officials say.

7/29/2010 3:04:45 PM

The Arab League backs direct Palestinian peace talks with the Israelis, but leaves the timing to the Palestinians, officials say.

7/29/2010 4:25:34 PM

At least 16 people, including several security force members, are killed in shootings and explosions in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, officials say.

7/29/2010 5:01:34 PM

Jarod Newlove, the second of two US servicemen who went missing in Afghanistan last week, is found dead, officials say.

7/29/2010 2:57:11 PM

Pakistanis are less afraid the country will be taken over by extremists and feel less threatened by the Taliban than last year, research suggests.

7/29/2010 7:22:24 PM

Arizona says it will appeal against a federal court's decision to block parts of an anti-immigration law hours before it came into effect.

7/29/2010 4:12:29 PM

As many as 6,600 graves at Arlington National Cemetery were mislabelled or unmarked because of incompetence among managers, a US senator says.

7/29/2010 5:39:31 PM

The UK's Partygaming and Austrian firm Bwin unveil plans to merge and create the world's largest online gaming business.

7/29/2010 4:10:10 PM

Oil giants Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil see profits almost double in the week rival BP suffered record losses.

7/29/2010 4:56:19 PM

Toyota is recalling almost 430,000 vehicles in the US and Japan amid concern over steering problems.

7/29/2010 6:11:18 PM

The UK Independence Party wins its court battle against having to pay back all of a £367,697 "impermissible donation".

7/29/2010 12:59:00 PM

Business Secretary Vince Cable will not address the TUC's annual congress after his invitation to speak was withdrawn.

7/29/2010 7:46:14 PM

David Cameron reveals he told the Queen he was not "totally sure" what sort of government he was going to form as he became prime minister.

7/29/2010 5:07:41 AM

The overhaul of the NHS may harm the public health drive, a health think tank is warning.

7/29/2010 12:07:21 AM

GPs and other health professionals should tell people they are fat rather than obese, England's public health minister says.

7/28/2010 11:48:19 AM

Doctors may soon be able to patch up damaged bones and joints anywhere in the body with a simple shot in the arm.

7/29/2010 12:07:16 AM

More than 150 top schools in England have applied to become academies, government documents show.

7/29/2010 12:29:07 PM

There has been a dramatic fall in the number of pupils excluded from schools in England in the past year, official figures show.

7/29/2010 11:32:37 AM

A growing number of children in Britain are being abducted by a parent and taken overseas, the Foreign Office says.

7/29/2010 12:21:47 PM

Security researcher Ron Bowes tells BBC News why he collected and published the personal details of 100m Facebook users.

7/29/2010 12:40:36 PM

No "significant" personal data was grabbed by Google when it snooped on wi-fi networks, says the UK data protection office.

7/29/2010 1:48:34 PM

Online retailer Amazon launches its popular Kindle e-reader into the UK market for the first time, with a new look and more books.

7/29/2010 5:00:33 AM

A Unesco panel votes to remove the Galapagos Islands from a "red list" of endangered heritage sites, drawing protests from a leading conservation group.

7/29/2010 6:11:11 PM

The amount of plankton in the oceans has declined markedly over the last century, with warming identified as a cause.

7/28/2010 6:23:48 PM

Canadian archaeologists locate the wreck of HMS Investigator, a British ship abandoned in the Arctic in the 19th Century.

7/28/2010 9:34:19 PM

Seven doctors who treated Michael Jackson in the years before his death will not face charges, US investigators say.

7/29/2010 8:58:21 AM

Three time capsules are to be created on what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday, to be dedicated at a ceremony in the US.

7/29/2010 5:52:34 PM

Musician Plastic Bertrand apparently admits to a Belgian newspaper that he did not sing on signature hit Ca Plane Pour Moi.

7/29/2010 10:50:04 AM

With thousands expected to flock to a major cheese fair, why are Britons taking this once-humble foodstuff so seriously?

7/28/2010 11:15:25 AM

Professor Robert Winston on how creative block has tormented great artists and even those in the sciences.

7/27/2010 7:58:05 AM

Mad Men's sassy secretary has been given government sanction for her body shape - but how realistic is it for women?

7/27/2010 12:29:30 PM

With monsoons being heavier than normal, floods in north-west Pakistan have killed at least 120 people.

7/29/2010 5:25:06 PM

A modern Bollywood adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma is set to hit the big screen. Anna Holligan went to meet its stars.

7/29/2010 7:56:23 PM

A Spanish tourist remains missing after a Turkish tour boat was engulfed by flames while sailing in the Mediterranean.

7/29/2010 4:43:08 PM

The contenders for the Labour leadership have set out their personal circumstances, the reasons they went into politics and their secret vices.

7/29/2010 12:45:19 PM

The BBC's Tim Franks tries to keep pace with Nader el Masri on the dusty roads of Gaza.

7/29/2010 5:07:56 PM

Prime Minister David Cameron has defended his comments about Pakistan's record on tackling terrorism.

7/29/2010 10:51:01 AM

A team of divers - known as Neptune's Army of Rubbish Cleaners - are stepping up efforts to keep Britain's coastline clean and litter free.

7/29/2010 4:37:23 AM

The first High Street bank to launch in the UK for more than 100 years has opened its first branch in Holborn in London.

7/29/2010 1:06:57 PM

Was Dr Crippen innocent of his wife's murder?

7/29/2010 11:47:14 AM

Happily married, don't want kids - why is it seen as odd?

7/29/2010 11:50:59 AM

Profile of new head of British army, Gen Sir Peter Wall

7/29/2010 2:10:09 PM

Madagascar hospitals hit as aid cut over army coup

7/29/2010 6:00:26 AM