Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife pay their respects to the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks during a visit to Ground Zero in New York.

Paddington Bear is voted the UK's favourite animated character of all time at the British Animation Awards in London.

TV cooking show MasterChef announces its 2012 champion, with hosts Gregg Wallace and John Torode praising the winner as a "very special cook".

The United States says it remains committed to reconciliation in Afghanistan, despite the Taliban's suspension of preliminary peace talks.

Education Secretary Michael Gove sacks the governing body of a school at the centre of a row over attempts to make it an academy.

A nurse who was filmed accidentally switching off the ventilator of a tetraplegic man is struck off.

Around 7,000 more women in the UK have been fitted with banned PIP breast implants than previously thought, according to the government.

The future of the Tube and Heathrow Airport top the agenda when the four main candidates to be London mayor clash at a hustings in the City.