Police secure a 12-hour extension to question two men after RAF jets were scrambled to escort a Pakistan Airlines plane in UK airspace.

There has been a huge increase in anti-Muslim incidents since the murder of a British soldier in London, an inter-faith charity says.

The leader of the Lebanese Shia militant Hezbollah movement promises his supporters victory in Syria, saying Sunni rebels pose a threat to Lebanon.

Sergio Aguero signs a one-year contract extension with Manchester City, with his deal now running until 2017.

A total of 48 passengers, including children, are rescued from a boat after it hits a rock and starts taking in water off the Pembrokeshire coast.

An original Apple 1 computer from 1976 - one of the first built in Steve Jobs' garage - sells at auction for more than 500,000 euros ($650,000).

Leicester win the Premiership final to secure their 10th English title against Northampton, who have Dylan Hartley sent off.

The death of a zoo worker attacked by a tiger could have been due to "human or technical" factors, police say.

England hooker Dylan Hartley could miss the Lions' tour to Australia after being sent off in the Premiership final.

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Lewis Hamilton admits he has been struggling to drive his Mercedes car since joining the team this season.

A suicide bomber has blown herself up close to an interior ministry building in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, officials say.

At least seven marines and five militants are killed as troops tackle Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines, the military says.

Argentines polarised over the Kirchner decade

A zoo keeper has died after being attacked by a Sumatran tiger in the big cat enclosure at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Cumbria.

The former Glasgow Provan and Glasgow Baillieston Labour MP Jimmy Wray dies at the age of 78.

David Beckham's 20-year playing career ends after he is not named in Paris St-Germain's squad to play Lorient.

Two goods trains collide in the US state of Missouri, bringing down a road bridge and leaving seven people injured.

About 100 activists stage Ukraine's first gay pride march in the capital Kiev, describing the event as a "historic" day.

More than 30 of the coalition's flagship schemes, including the West Coast Main Line scheme, are at serious risk of failure, a government report warns.