The New Zealand government files 25 criminal charges of health and safety violations over last year's Pike River mining disaster.

NHS officials are to meet to discuss the possible night-time closure of Stafford Hospital's accident and emergency unit.

London 2012 organisers apologise for airbrushing HMS Belfast from an official poster depicting the capital's skyline.

Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee holds UK interest rates at 0.5% and no new Quantitative Easing measures are announced.

David Cameron returns to east London's technology cluster and highlights its rapid expansion over the past year.

A former News International lawyer accuses the company's chairman James Murdoch of giving "disingenuous" evidence to the Commons media committee

Mexico's fight against drug gangs has led to a rise in abuses by security forces who are not being held to account, Human Rights Watch says.

Italy's president says Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will step down within days, as the country's financial crisis deepens.