A bomb blast blamed on a suspected suicide attacker hits a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut, reportedly killing four people.

Super League agree a deal with independent energy supplier First Utility to become the competition's title sponsor for the next three years.

A woman who worked as a BBC camera operator in the early 1980s tells a court Dave Lee Travis squeezed her bottom during a recording of Top of the Pops.

Scotland's bars and pubs are being urged to promote the sale of smaller measures of wine, as part of a government campaign.

Championship side Blackpool sack manager Paul Ince after less than a year in charge at Bloomfield Road.

Two-time finalist Li Na races into the Australian Open semi-finals as she produces a ruthless display to beat Flavia Pennetta.

England's largest prison - the much-criticised Oakwood - called an ambulance out more than twice as many times as any other category C prison last year, a BBC investigation shows.

The family of two Northampton women who were found dead in the US along with two children and a man say they are "devastated".