Tripoli condemns the UK's decision to recognise the rebels as Libya's "sole governmental authority" after similar moves by France and the US.

The White House lightens the tone of the US debt ceiling debate by "Rickrolling" those following a Twitter chat on US fiscal policy.

The government should "think again" about the introduction of the English Baccalaureate to secondary schools in England, says a committee of MPs.

Government departments have been ripped off by an "oligopoly" of IT giants, an influential committee of MPs finds.

Police in one of Mexico's most violent cities, Ciudad Juarez, accuse federal colleagues of firing at them while putting down a deadly prison riot.

House Speaker John Boehner presses Republicans to support his budget-cuts plan as the US debt ceiling deadline looms.

Veterans of the UK's nuclear testing programme of the 1950s await a Supreme Court decision on whether appeal test cases can be launched.

Details of police informants stored on a computer memory stick are stolen in a burglary at the home of a Greater Manchester Police officer.