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

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.

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".

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.

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.

Seven people are arrested in the Irish Republic over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

The Ministry of Defence names two British soldiers killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan on Sunday.

Dutch bishops order an inquiry into alleged sexual abuses of children by Catholic priests, threatening a new scandal.

The sale of papers belonging to a 16th Century Italian scholar credited with founding European art history is called off at the last moment.

India's upper house sees a second day of uproar as it backs a bill to reserve a third of all parliamentary seats for women.

Pink Floyd launch legal action in the High Court against EMI over payment of online royalties and marketing of their music.