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The NI Ombudsman advises the Planning Service to pay £30,000 compensation to three residents because it failed to enforce planning regulations at an Omagh gold mine.

Activist Chen Guangcheng says he wants to leave China hours after leaving his US embassy refuge, as US-China strategic talks get under way.

The parents of a 12-year-old who died of heart failure during a swimming lesson say defribrillators should be placed in all public buildings.

Grammar schools should be rated on a tougher GCSE measure, a report by the Schools Network says.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told China that it cannot deny the aspirations of its citizens, during a news conference at the start of high-level trade and security talks between the two countries in Beijing.

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urges China to change its export-led growth policy and increase domestic consumption.

Nine months on from the riots in London, hundreds of cases are still being prepared for trial, the BBC learns.

Former US senator John Edwards' daughter flees court during evidence about a furious confrontation between her father and mother over his affair.

Voters go to the polls for council elections in England, Wales and Scotland, and several mayoral votes and referendums also take place.

Argentina marks the 30th anniversary of the sinking of the warship General Belgrano during the Falklands conflict with the UK.

Ikea is investigating claims it used forced labour in former East Germany to make its furniture during the 1970s and 1980s.

Singapore's Temasek Holdings is seeking to sell $2.4bn (£1.3bn) worth of its shares in Bank of China and China Construction Bank.

A record number of UK beaches have been given the top award for water quality in the latest Good Beach Guide, says the Marine Conservation Society.

More than 120 short films offering "snapshots of the UK's cultural, sporting, industrial and political heritage" have been put online.

Who won France's ill-tempered presidential debate?

A service on the fifth anniversary of Madeleine McCann's disappearance is to take place at her grandparents' church in Liverpool.

Details of the deal in which private sector company Circle is running an NHS hospital show it is allowed to keep the first £2m of any annual surplus.

Heavy summer downpours are blamed for a dip in top quality bathing water at beaches across Scotland.

The polls have closed in elections to decide who runs Scotland's 32 local authorities, with counting due to begin on Friday morning.

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