The UK is to meet Germany and "a series of European nations who share our concerns" over stopping "benefit tourism", Iain Duncan Smith says.

Background checks on a psychotic killer by police officers would not have stopped her murdering again, the Met Police insists.

Randy Blythe, frontman of US metal band Lamb of God, is acquitted by a Czech court of causing the death of a fan at a concert in Prague in 2010.

Colombia's Fernando Montano talks to the BBC about how, after deciding at the age of four that he wanted to become a professional ballet dancer, he travelled the world from Cuba to Italy before ending up in the UK where he is now the only Colombian dancer in the Royal Ballet.

A man who spent almost 20 years on the run in the US is jailed for five years for stealing a security van containing £1.2m in Suffolk.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is suffering from a new, severe respiratory infection following cancer surgery, the government says.

A takeaway delivery driver is revealed as the mystery Batman figure who handed a wanted man in at a police station in Bradford.

The UK is lagging behind progress by similar countries on many indicators for ill-health, research published in the Lancet suggests.

The US and China reach a tentative deal on a new sanctions resolution to punish North Korea for its nuclear test, UN diplomats say.

Two people are killed after a crowd storms a jail in Madagascar where the three alleged killers of a French nun were believed to be held.

Syrian rebels have captured the governor of the northern province of Raqqa after over-running most its capital city, activists say.

NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson spells out his determination to carry on leading the health service as he faces a grilling from MPs over his role in the Stafford Hospital scandal.

A "grand coalition" to get some of Europe's 26 million unemployed into IT-related jobs is outlined by the European Commission.

The family of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, accused of murder, distances itself from his father's comments that guns are needed to protect white people from crime.

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On the 60th anniversary of the death of Soviet supreme ruler Joseph Stalin there is still controversy over how to view his legacy.

The UK's most senior judge warns that the legal profession will be "troubled" by aspects of plans to allow courts to examine secret intelligence in private.

Two former chiefs of Afghanistan's Kabul Bank are sentenced to five years in jail for the multi-million dollar fraud that almost led to its collapse in 2010.

Teen pop idol Justin Bieber angers parents by emerging onstage for a concert at London's O2 Arena almost two hours late.

The war in Iraq had a dramatic effect on politics and diplomacy in UK, in the Middle East and across the globe, and still has the power to provoke debate 10 years on,