Lance Armstrong says he is not looking for sympathy despite being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles.

Highlights of the day's Premier League action.

The UK public-infrastructure group Mouchel enters administration after its shareholders rejected a proposed restructuring.

More than a million people are expected to enjoy the vibrancy of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London.

A petition urging ministers to reconsider changing the operator of the West Coast Mainline rail service attracts more than 100,000 signatures and could now be debated in Parliament.

First man on the Moon Neil Armstrong was a hero "of all time", President Obama says, leading tributes to the US astronaut who has died at 82.

A man imprisoned in Africa after suspected involvement in a massacre has been moved from jail, the Foreign Office confirms.

A cardboard box becomes the home of a family of swallows in a castle walkway after their original nest fell, killing two chicks.