Pakistan bowler Mohammad Amir is being questioned at a north London police station over allegations of corruption, while the ICC says that the players implicated have a disciplinary case to answer.

Militant groups in the Gaza Strip vow to step up attacks against Israel, following the first direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in nearly two years.

The former Liberal Democrat MP Sir Cyril Smith has died, aged 82, the party confirms.

Lord Prescott says he is prepared to take legal action to find out whether News of The World journalists hacked into his phone messages.

Fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir is remanded on bail at the Old Bailey at his first court appearance on fraud and theft charges.

Defence Secretary Liam Fox rules out the UK sharing aircraft carriers with France as part of closer defence co-operation.

The BBC denies the director general compromised its independence by visiting Downing Street to discuss coverage of the government's spending cuts.

The United Nations' food agency calls a special meeting of policy makers to discuss the recent rise in global food prices.

A pathologist at the centre of a row over the death of a man during the G20 protests is suspended from the medical register for three months.

A County Durham woman who took the lifeless body of her two-year-old to a police station has been charged with his murder