Two people are feared to have died when a light aircraft crashes near Chester, Cheshire police say.

Facebook shares fall heavily as the first lock-up period, which had prevented sales by early investors, ends.

Norway's head of police, Oeystein Maeland, resigns after an inquiry found that mass killer Anders Behring Breivik could have been stopped.

A court is due to deliver its verdict in the trial of three members of the band Pussy Riot, who performed a protest song in Moscow's cathedral.

At least 30 people were killed when police opened fire on striking miners in South Africa on Thursday, the country's police minister says.

A drug user has died in a Lancashire hospital after being infected with anthrax, the Health Protection Agency says.

Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are convicted of hooliganism for performing an anti-Putin song in a cathedral, at a controversial trial in Moscow.

Rio Ferdinand is found guilty of improper conduct by the FA in relation to comments he posted on Twitter.