Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson rues a lack of service to new signing Robin van Persie as his side lose 1-0 at Everton.

Kevin Pietersen is left out of the England squads for both the World Twenty20 tournament and the one-day series with South Africa.

Former Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, who dominated the country's politics for decades between the 1950s and 1980s, has died aged 96.

Shareholders of China's online video firms, Youku and Tudou, approve their plan to merge and create the biggest online video firm in China.

The UK would now have run out of fish for the year if it relied on stocks from its own waters, a report by the New Economics Foundation think tank says.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi dies "abroad" at the age of 57, the government announces, following weeks of speculation about his health.

China's largest offshore oil and gas company, CNOOC, posts a drop of 19% in profits in the first half of the year, after the closure of its biggest oil field.

Two more people are arrested after a hit-and-run incident in Leeds which seriously injured two children.