Tensions rose in Egypt as former president Hosni Mubarak was given a life sentence for failing to stop the killing of protesters during last year's uprising - but was cleared, along with his sons, of corruption charges.Read
Conservative co-chairman Baroness Warsi has denied failing to register business interests as she faced fresh allegations of breaching House of Lords rules.Read
Chancellor George Osborne has been urged to "resist buckling" under the pressure of "intense lobbying" by banks ahead of moves to reform the financial sector.Read
A cargo plane attempting to land in Ghana's capital has crashed, slamming into cars and a bus loaded with passengers on a nearby street, killing at least 10 people, officials said.Read
Spain will stick to harsh austerity measures until it emerges from its financial crisis, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said, promising that the country would survive the present economic turmoil.Read
Derby Day spectators welcomed the Queen as she began her Diamond Jubilee celebrations with cheers and applause on her annual visit to the Epsom racecourse.Read
Four men have been cleared by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court of involvement in the 2010 Times Square bomb plot, according to a lawyer and relatives of the men.Read
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising which forced him from power last year.Read
The UN's top human rights official has said that there should be no amnesty for serious crimes committed in Syria, even if the threat of prosecution might motivate members of the regime to cling to power at all costs.Read
Visitors to the Chatsworth estate have joined in a party atmosphere, while the Duke of Devonshire described his excitement at being the youngest of the Queen's pages at her Coronation in 1953.Read
Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising that forced him from power.Read
The rescue of a British aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan last month was an "extraordinarily brave, breath-taking" operation, Prime Minister David Cameron said.Read
