The government announces it will sell 7.5% of Lloyds Banking Group after it was advised to sell more of its shares.

Former Co-op Bank chief Paul Flowers tells Newsnight of his "hellish" personal ordeal after being arrested over drug claims and the government pressure he faced over the bank's aborted Lloyds takeover.

Defending champions West Indies beat hosts Bangladesh by 73 runs in Group Two of the World Twenty20 in Mirpur.

The lack of action to tackle liver disease in the UK is "scandalous" and leading to a "shameful waste of lives", according to a group of MPs.

A zoo in Denmark that provoked outrage after putting down a healthy giraffe, has killed a family of four lions to make way for a new young male lion.

Lithuania's energy minister calls on the US Senate to speed-up natural gas exports to Europe, in order to challenge Russia's dominance.

A Miss Hampshire beauty pageant contestant reacts with dismay at being beaten to the tiara by a Londoner.

The head of the Metropolitan Police asks "that there is no more shredding" of documents while he deals with claims that files relating to a corruption review were destroyed.