Five British soldiers killed in an attack by a rogue Afghan policeman in 2009 were there because of a "blood feud" between a police commander and the Taliban, an inquest hears.

Two men are to stand trial over the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in London in 1993.

Bomb disposal experts are called in and two cordons are set up in Hartlepool after a man's body is found in a car that had exploded.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services union have agreed to hold a ballot for a national strike over cuts to the public sector.

Teams win a stay of execution over a ban on Formula 1's latest must-have technology at this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix.

The hotel maid who says she was sexually assaulted by IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is enduring an "extraordinary" trauma, her lawyer says.

A safety review of the UK's nuclear industry is expected to give a broad all-clear to current reactors and future plans.

Ministers are being accused of seeking "revenge" on the police for foiled attempts to reform pay 18 years ago.