Israel says it is training Jewish settlers in the West Bank to repel violent protest ahead of a Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN.

An 86-year-old US man who was impaled through the eye with pruning shears in a freak gardening accident should make a full recovery, doctors say.

Business Secretary Vince Cable calls bankers "disingenuous" for warning reforms could damage economic recovery, and says reform must happen.

A retired Guernsey surgeon becomes the oldest man to swim the English Channel, aged 70 years and four months.

Singer's pregnancy news at Sunday night's MTV video music awards breaks record for most tweets per second.

A severely ill traveller is to make a last-ditch appeal to the High Court to stop evictions from an illegal site in Essex.

Carlos Tevez accepts it will be "impossible" for him to leave Manchester City before the end of the transfer window, BBC Sport understands.

Former Chancellor Alistair Darling will lift the lid on feuding at the heart of Gordon Brown's government in his new memoir, according to a Labour-supporting blog.