Video footage filmed by Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people in south-west France, is sent to the al-Jazeera TV station, police sources say.

Friends Reunited, once the biggest social network in the UK, relaunches as a site to share life memories.

Up to 50,000 migrants may have exploited flaws in the student visa system to come and work in the UK, Whitehall's watchdog says.

Changes to the planning system in England aimed at making it easier to gain consent for large-scale, sustainable projects, are coming into force.

The elderly are being passed around hospitals in England like parcels, often going without treatment because of ageist attitudes, a report suggests.

Parliament should not introduce a new privacy law, even in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World, a report says.

Community sentences for offenders in England and Wales are to be changed to ensure they are "tough and credible", ministers will say later.

Several people are arrested near the Afghan ministry of defence and suicide jackets seized, after the authorities foil an apparent suicide attack.