The closure of more hospitals is needed if the NHS is going to cope with the demands of the ageing population, a former NHS boss says.

Stoke break their transfer record by signing striker Peter Crouch from Tottenham in a deal which could eventually be worth £12m.

A ceremony marking the transfer of military repatriations from RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, takes place later.

Some of England's first "free schools" are opening their doors to pupils.

Police and other authorities can now face prosecution over deaths in custody under a law change on Thursday.

All the fall-out from the transfer deadline day, news from the athletics World Championships, plus more.

A key summit on Libya's future, hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and UK Prime Minister David Cameron, is set to get under way in Paris.

A row breaks out between Wikileaks and one of the newspapers it collaborated with to leak US diplomatic cables.