Tottenham Hotspur are on the verge of abandoning their legal battle to take over the 2012 Olympic Stadium after the Games, BBC London learns.

The world contains about 8.7 million species, according to the latest estimate - and it could take more than 1,000 years to identify them all.

Norwich City crash out of the Carling Cup with a humiliating home defeat by League One side MK Dons.

Arsenal, without the departing Samir Nasri and missing key players through injury, look to turn around a terrible start to the season by reaching the Champions League group stage.

Austria's Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner becomes the first woman to reach all 14 Himalayan summits above 8,000m (26,000 ft) without bottled oxygen, her team says.

Prisons Minister Crispin Blunt has said the disturbances in English cities earlier this month were a "one-off" event.

Cheques - until recently facing the threat of abolition - should be improved and the group overseeing them overhauled, say MPs.

Patients thought to have high blood pressure should have the diagnosis confirmed at home, doctors in England and Wales have been told.