Britain's 2010 Winter Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams retires from skeleton.

Bank staff are failing to give clear and accurate advice about recurring payments, a consumer watchdog says.

A BBC investigation uncovers new claims about the Catholic primate of all-Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, and his role in a 1975 clerical sex abuse inquiry.

On the day Roy Hodgson was appointed England's new manager, BBC's Newsnight sought the considered views of QPR captain, Twitter addict and one-cap England international Joey Barton. Barton told Jeremy Paxman that it was a shrewd decision by the FA.

US President Barack Obama has addressed the US public in a prime-time speech from Afghanistan, on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in China for wide-ranging talks, where the escape of a Chinese activist could overshadow discussions.

Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to take her seat in parliament, after deciding to compromise over the wording of the oath.

Scientists developing genetically genetically modified wheat ask campaigners to come for a chat rather than ruin their experimental plots.