President Obama makes a plea for religious tolerance, as a church threatening to burn the Koran demands contact with a New York imam.

9/10/2010 11:15:20 PM

MPs held back in an inquiry into phone-hacking allegations for fear that their own private lives could be targeted, a former MP claims.

9/10/2010 8:50:02 PM

Wayne Rooney and his wife Coleen ask the media to respect their privacy while they discuss newspaper allegations about the footballer.

9/10/2010 7:39:40 PM

As many as 40,000 front-line police jobs may be at risk across England and Wales if funding cuts of 25% go ahead, the Police Federation says.

9/10/2010 6:32:39 PM

The government confirms it is to press ahead with a complete sale of Royal Mail, following an updated review of the postal service.

9/10/2010 10:45:59 PM

Men and women who say they were sexually abused as children by Catholic priests are to hold a conference ahead of the Pope's British visit.

9/10/2010 10:29:53 PM

About 2,500 jobs are saved after administrators KPMG agree to sell most of Connaught's failed social housing group.

9/10/2010 11:31:31 AM

Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones tells his party conference that after next year's assembly elections he wants to be first minister of Wales.

9/10/2010 4:58:24 PM

A man is jailed for at least 16 years for murdering his father and burying his remains in concrete in a garden in Buckinghamshire.

9/10/2010 2:05:54 PM

At least four people have been killed in an explosion which tore through a town near San Francisco, officials say.

9/10/2010 4:55:55 PM

A "payment-by-results" project to cut reoffending is officially launched, with investors getting a return only if reoffending drops.

9/10/2010 1:41:46 PM

Former air steward Brian Dowling is the bookies' favourite to win Ultimate Big Brother as the Channel 4 reality show comes to an end.

9/10/2010 1:29:03 PM

Lifeboat crews made a most unusual rescue off the coast of Anglesey - an 81-year-old man and his wheelie bin.

9/10/2010 9:15:09 PM

Allotment owners are disappointed their vegetables and homemade jam can no longer be sold in a Cumbria hospice shop.

9/10/2010 8:24:27 PM

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson and Everton manager David Moyes refuse to be drawn on Wayne Rooney's off-field problems as the troubled striker returns to face his former club on Saturday.

9/10/2010 7:06:01 PM

Venus Williams faces Kim Clijsters after Vera Zvonareva shocks Caroline Wozniacki on women's semi-finals day at the US Open.

9/10/2010 6:29:36 PM

England compound Pakistan's off-field problems with a deserved 24-run win to take a 1-0 lead in the five-game one-day series.

9/10/2010 6:38:32 PM

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel steals Ferrari's thunder to set the pace in practice at the Italian Grand Prix.

9/10/2010 2:41:27 PM

Jamie Foster kicks six goals as St Helens stun Warrington with a 28-12 play-off derby win at Knowsley Road.

9/10/2010 9:55:43 PM

Three men are jailed for a sex attack on a woman which only came to light when the victim saw footage of it on a mobile phone.

9/10/2010 5:30:14 PM

Two men are jailed over a hammer attack which left a teenager from Leicester brain damaged.

9/10/2010 8:42:27 PM

The Fire Brigades Union warns any further cuts to frontline provision would be dangerous for the public and crews.

9/10/2010 6:54:12 PM

Scotland has lost nearly a fifth of the jobs in its computer games industry so far this year, an industry body warns.

9/10/2010 9:01:38 PM

A man convicted of battering and strangling a vulnerable young woman in County Antrim is to appeal the guilty verdict.

9/10/2010 6:03:44 PM

Denis Bradley says he met Father James Chesney but at the time was not aware the priest was suspected of involvement in the Claudy bombings.

9/10/2010 2:11:30 PM

Three more cases of Legionnaires' disease are identified as health officials close a cooling tower in Merthyr Tydfil until it is cleaned and disinfected.

9/10/2010 6:06:50 PM

Police forces in Wales are warning of tough times ahead amid fears over job cuts in front-line roles.

9/10/2010 6:28:04 PM

The head of Guinea's election commission and another senior official are sentenced to a year in prison for fraud during June's first round presidential vote.

9/10/2010 10:43:26 AM

Air Zimbabwe has warned striking pilots that they could lose their jobs unless they return to work, according to state media.

9/10/2010 3:57:53 PM

Beijing postpones planned talks with Tokyo after Japan's court extends the detention of a Chinese captain over a collision in disputed waters.

9/10/2010 10:58:15 PM

More than 230,000 elderly people in Japan who are listed as being aged 100 or over are unaccounted for, officials said following a nationwide inquiry.

9/10/2010 10:53:58 AM

Harrowing details of alleged sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergy in Belgium are released by an official Church investigator.

9/10/2010 6:09:55 PM

Danish police hold a man injured by a small blast at a Copenhagen hotel amid reports he was a would-be suicide bomber.

9/10/2010 5:07:48 PM

Fidel Castro says he was misinterpreted when he was quoted by a US reporter as saying that the Cuban economic model no longer worked.

9/10/2010 7:47:41 PM

Colombia's Farc rebels kill six policemen, in the latest in a surge of attacks that have killed more than 30 security personnel since President Juan Manuel Santos took office a month ago.

9/10/2010 8:42:37 PM

Iran delays the release of Sarah Shourd, one of three US hikers arrested last year on suspicion of espionage, officials say.

9/10/2010 10:29:47 PM

Iran rejects claims by dissident groups that it has almost completed a secret uranium-enrichment facility near Tehran.

9/10/2010 4:39:02 PM

The three Pakistan cricketers questioned by police over alleged spot fixing are to fly home.

9/10/2010 9:28:18 AM

A court in India's Manipur state issues warrants for the arrest of nine policemen charged with killing an unarmed man.

9/10/2010 10:30:33 AM

US President Barack Obama has said that progress in pulling the American economy out of recession has been "painfully slow".

9/10/2010 4:55:48 PM

The US Department of Defense is trying to stop the distribution of a book by a former intelligence officer.

9/10/2010 4:26:57 PM

The UK's top tax man says he has no need to apologise after taking the wrong amount of tax off six million people.

9/10/2010 11:46:50 PM

Motoring organisations are warning that the scourge of cowboy wheel clampers is likely to continue.

9/10/2010 11:46:29 PM

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) formally approves the second installment of a rescue loan to Greece.

9/10/2010 10:01:33 PM

A justice minister says he paid private detectives to investigate his colleagues because he was upset about "malicious" newspaper stories.

9/10/2010 11:28:37 PM

Mayor of London Boris Johnson announces he will stand for re-election in 2012.

9/10/2010 12:28:43 PM

Green Party leader Caroline Lucas appeals to Lib Dem supporters disillusioned with the coalition's policies to join her party.

9/10/2010 2:53:38 PM

A doctor who offered controversial stem cell treatments to multiple sclerosis patients faces being struck off by the General Medical Council.

9/10/2010 2:53:00 PM

Volunteers are calling on the MS Society not to abandon four respite care centres in York, Surrey, Warwickshire and East Lothian

9/10/2010 5:38:34 PM

High levels of the stress hormone cortisol are closely linked to death from cardiovascular disease, a Dutch study has found.

9/10/2010 5:39:04 PM

The government spending watchdog warns the expansion of the academies programme could risk being poor value for money.

9/10/2010 1:19:54 AM

The children's minister says parents should have more choice over special educational needs provision in England, as she seeks input for a Green Paper.

9/10/2010 6:28:14 PM

Education authorities are facing a call to merge so classrooms may be spared the worst of the cuts in public spending.

9/10/2010 12:15:58 AM

A boxing game is spearheading attempts to get middle-aged men in Teesside to get more regular exercise.

9/10/2010 9:08:17 AM

Telecoms watchdog Ofcom aims to address the fact that switching broadband providers is viewed as "too much hassle".

9/10/2010 3:26:12 PM

A malicious program that falsely promises free access to sex movies is racking up victims around the world, warn security firms.

9/10/2010 11:13:41 AM

More than a third of freshwater turtle species are now threatened with extinction, Conservation International says.

9/10/2010 10:51:36 AM

A celestial event seen by the ancient Greeks may be the earliest sighting of Halley's comet, new evidence suggests.

9/10/2010 11:35:40 AM

Scientists say they can quickly and accurately map a child's brain development using an MRI machine and a maths programme.

9/10/2010 4:33:51 AM

Leading artists including Tracey Emin, David Hockney and Damien Hirst join a campaign against proposed government cuts to arts funding.

9/10/2010 4:24:37 PM

The British Museum settles a dispute with Iran's national museum over the loan of ancient Persian treasure the Cyrus Cylinder.

9/10/2010 4:00:26 PM

Will Smith's daughter, Willow, nine, signs a record deal with rapper Jay-Z's label Roc Nation and releases debut single Whip My Hair.

9/10/2010 9:43:16 AM

The three-hour television marathons of pop, guests, phone-ins and chaos that used to usher in the weekend.

9/10/2010 11:44:33 AM

Its name lives on in the form of a prestigious music prize but whatever happened to Mercury Communications?

9/9/2010 12:11:51 AM

Some gay people will protest at the Pope's UK visit next week - but one London Catholic church is hosting a "gay Mass".

9/9/2010 12:40:58 PM

MPs have decided to hold a new inquiry into allegations that some of their phones were hacked by journalists at the News of the World.

9/9/2010 3:30:51 PM

In Italy the town of Antrani on the Amalfi coast has been hit by flash flooding and mudslides.

9/10/2010 6:43:14 PM

The first ever Klingon opera is underway in The Hague

9/10/2010 3:53:18 PM

An Australian man who cycled round Europe for three months looking for his missing son is to be reunited with him after two-and-a-half years.

9/10/2010 12:19:32 PM

Royal Marine Mark Ormrod is a triple amputee who is setting out to run 3,500 miles across the US.

9/10/2010 7:05:13 AM

A child's toy sparked a bomb scare in Orlando after it was left unattended in a cul-de-sac.

9/10/2010 8:48:03 AM

Dozens of homes have been set ablaze near San Francisco International Airport, after a reported explosion.

9/10/2010 4:44:01 AM

US Marines have boarded and seized a vessel hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia, navy officials say.

9/10/2010 9:15:18 AM

Presenters dancing, lessons in how to fall over and the man who drives a dining room table. It's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.

9/9/2010 11:42:36 PM

Stunning images captured by earthbound astronomers

9/10/2010 9:13:08 AM

How 'the grid method' has replaced long multiplication

9/10/2010 11:51:22 AM

Can you spot the original Peggy Mitchell from our line-up?

9/10/2010 12:01:59 AM

The achievements of Will Smith and his talented brood

9/10/2010 3:39:59 PM

The tennis players with a message at US Open

9/10/2010 8:26:10 PM

Greens celebrate first MP but will their success continue?

9/10/2010 4:18:09 PM

Drew Barrymore has become a Hollywood force

9/10/2010 12:01:34 PM