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Sir Elton John has pulled out of three performances in Las Vegas after being taken to hospital with a respiratory infection.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter asks Franz Beckenbauer to come up with an alternative to the "tragedy" of penalty shoot-outs.

Boris Johnson names a senior BBC journalist as his new director of communications.

England goalkeeper John Ruddy is ruled out of Euro 2012 after breaking his finger in training.

Spain's Bankia is set to ask for a big government bailout later, say reports, while the region of Catalonia has already asked for help.

Gibraltarian police confront Spanish officers escorting Spanish fishing boats in the waters near Gibraltar for the second night running.

Three men are charged over the seizure of £4.1m of counterfeit coins - thought to be the biggest such discovery in the UK.

The family of a man from York who went missing after a canoeing trip in India say his body has been found.

A British climber successfully carries an Olympic gold medal to the top of Mount Everest, fulfilling a pledge made 80 years ago.

Police launch a murder investigation after the body of a 59-year-old man is discovered in his Glasgow home.

A grid of 25,000 "invisibility cloaks" shows how to slow light down and spread out its constituent colours in an advance dubbed "trapping a rainbow".

Anger erupts at the Michaela McAreavey murder trial after lawyers clash over a sex guide found in the couple's room.

Derbyshire Police appeal for "patience" as their investigation into a house fire which killed six children continues.

Destination London's Paddy O'Connell finds out how London's Air Ambulance Service will provide critical care during the Olympics.

The social unrest, economic gloom and austerity in Europe today mirrors the fall of the Roman Empire, says the historian Michael Wood.

President Francois Hollande defends his decision to end France's military mission in Afghanistan early, during an unannounced visit to Kabul.

A rare colony of birds making the Welsh coastline their home for three months are being protected by an electrified fence.

Two officers of the container ship that ran aground off New Zealand causing its worst maritime spill are jailed for seven months.

Opponents criticise the Welsh government for reducing the number of daily express trains between Holyhead and Cardiff.

A man has confessed to suffocating a six-year-old boy who went missing in New York in 1979, police say.