A senior detective at Scotland Yard is charged with offering information to the News of the World newspaper.

The European Court of Human Rights gives its final approval for the extradition of five major terrorism suspects from the UK to the US.

A police force denies withholding information about the scale of sexual exploitation of girls by gangs of men in South Yorkshire.

The Cabinet Office says there will be no investigation into the chief whip's confrontation with police as no complaint has been made.

A major reassessment of 18 years of satellite observations provides a new, more detailed view of the changes in ocean height around the world.

Facebook is forced to deny a rumour that users' private messages have been made public, while its shares fall after a financial journal says the stock is overvalued.

Two US Marines are referred for trial over a video showing troops urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, the US military says.