US Vice-President Joe Biden condemns Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes for ultra-Orthodox Jews in East Jerusalem.

Cisco systems unveiled its new super-speedy Internet hardware on Tuesday, which has 12 times the traffic capacity of other competing systems. The new router would have the capacity to download the entire Library of Congress in "just over one second".

Northern Ireland lawmakers voted to transfer policing and justice powers from London to Belfast in a milestone decision on Tuesday. The deal was passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly with an overwhelming majority of 88 ‘yes’ votes, to 17 ‘no’.

A professional gambler is found guilty of running a £34m pyramid scam which targeted people on low incomes.

Two goals from Cameron Jerome inspire Birmingham to a battling win against bottom-club Portsmouth at Fratton Park.

Nicklas Bendtner silences his recent critics with a hat-trick as Arsenal see off Porto in emphatic fashion to reach the Champions League quarter-finals.

A US TV producer pleads guilty to attempting to blackmail US chat show host David Letterman over his affairs.

President Barack Obama has 'responded positively' to calls to clamp down on market speculators, says the Greek PM after talks.

A French judge on Tuesday postponed a decision on whether to grant assassin Ali Vakili Rad parole until May. Rad was convicted of the 1991 murder of a former Iranian prime minister outside of Paris.

The UK goods trade deficit with the rest of the world widens in January, causing the pound to dip below $1.50.

The US apologises for comments made after Libya's Col Gaddafi called for a holy war against Switzerland.

A new medal to honour the courage of ordinary people who helped others escape the Nazis has been given to two men at Downing Street by Gordon Brown.

The coroner at an inquest into the death of four soldiers in an Afghan blast says there were training "inadequacies".

Togolese police have dispersed groups of young men who gathered in protest at the re-election of President Faure Gnassingbe, despite an earlier government ban on demonstrations that ratcheted up tensions in the wake of Thursday's disputed poll.

Northern Ireland's assembly backs a key measure to devolve the highly sensitive issues of policing and justice from London.

A ransom was demanded for the stolen and now-recovered body of Cyprus ex-President Papadopoulos, a minister says.

US Vice-President Joe Biden confirmed the US would defend Israeli security at a press conference with Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, as a fresh effort to revive peace talks got underway. Biden will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday.

A Kenyan-flagged fishing boat, was hijacked by suspected Somali pirates Tuesday, along with its 16-member crew. The European Union's Atalanta anti-piracy naval mission voiced fears that the vessel could be used as a "mother ship" for future attacks.

Aer Lingus announces plans to lay off 670 staff, including nearly a quarter of its cabin crew, as part of restructuring plans.

Two students fighting deportation to Pakistan were arrested days before they planned a terror strike in the UK, a court hears.