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German Chancellor Angela Merkel defends the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose drawings of the Prophet Muhammad caused outrage in 2006.

The Irish government has said it will break up the nationalised Anglo Irish Bank.

Labour MPs have rejected a move to allow the new party leader to choose who serves in the shadow cabinet.

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

Wall Street banking giant Goldman Sachs is fined £20m by the UK's financial watchdog, the BBC learns.

Wall Street banking giant Goldman Sachs is fined £20m by the UK's financial watchdog, the BBC learns.

England batsman Kevin Pietersen hopes to play for South African franchise Kwa-Zulu Natal in two matches as a warm-up for this winter's Ashes.

Former Liverpool and Lyon boss Gerard Houllier is named the new manager of Aston Villa.

The debt-laden Greek economy shrank by a surprise 1.8% in the second quarter as households slashed spending.

UN peacekeepers "failed" the victims of mass rape in eastern DR Congo, a senior UN official has said.

Closing dozens of small embassies to save money would be a "false economy" as they do not cost much, says William Hague.

England cricket coach Andy Flower says he does not want players banned from using Twitter but says they must do so 'in the right way'.

Former Senegalese international Lamine Ndiaye is named as the new coach of African club champions TP Mazembe.

The government orders an independent review of the UK's extradition laws, which will examine if the US-UK treaty is "unbalanced".

Palaeontologists uncover a new dinosaur with what may be the earliest evidence of feathers.

Gunmen in Iraq have killed an Iraqi TV journalist - the second in as many days - while four other people were killed in two attacks in the capital Baghdad.

A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.

A man is found guilty of murdering his father, whose remains were found in concrete in a garden in Buckinghamshire.

The Scottish Secretary says he can give "no guarantees" about the future of two Scottish RAF bases.

Seven Koranic teachers in Senegal are given suspended jail sentences for forcing their students to beg.