A Sir Peter Blake collage used to create an insert for The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album is sold at auction for more than £50,000.

The White House backs Gen John Allen after reports he "flirted" with a woman who was harassed by the lover of CIA Director David Petraeus.

Uganda will pass a new law against homosexuality by the end of the year as a "Christmas gift" to its advocates, the parliamentary speaker says.

One of the world's most admired diamonds, the Archduke Joseph, is sold at auction in Geneva for more than $21m (£13m).

The puppeteer of Sesame Street favourite Elmo describes his relief as a 23-year-old man admits his allegation of underage sex was false.

A man suspected of trying to access the bank accounts of the family of an engineer murdered in the French Alps is charged with fraud.

An outbreak of the hospital superbug MRSA has been brought to an end by UK doctors cracking the bacterium's genetic code.

An independent inquiry has concluded that a major overhaul is needed in the system for caring for people with schizophrenia.