Labour's Ken Livingstone loses the London mayoral election to close rival, Conservative Boris Johnson.

A UN special rapporteur says he will recommend the US restore tribal lands, including the Black Hills of South Dakota, site of Mount Rushmore.

In Japan, thousands of people have taken to the streets to celebrate the temporary switching off of the country's last operating nuclear reactor.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks have appeared before a US military tribunal at Guantanamo to be charged.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suffers a fresh setback after supporters of the Supreme Leader make new gains in run-off parliamentary polls.

Chelsea win the FA Cup for the seventh time after goals by Ramires and Didier Drogba sink Liverpool at Wembley.

Music stars Kimberley Walsh and Alfie Boe will debut a new version of the Queen hit One Vision, in front of a royal audience, later this month.

Greek socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos says his country faces a choice between austerity and "mass poverty" in elections on Sunday.