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The Olympics opening ceremony will create a green and pleasant land. But is this rural idyll a realistic representation of the UK?

Bankrupt Swedish carmaker Saab has been sold to an investment group which aims to develop the company into a maker of electric cars.

Henry Hill, a former mobster-turned-FBI informant whose life became the basis for Martin Scorsese's 1990 movie Goodfellas, dies in Los Angeles aged 69.

Arsenal are close to completing a deal to sign Montpellier's France international striker Olivier Giroud for £12m.

A maths A-level exam paper due to be taken next week has been scrapped because of fears of a security breach.

European governments need to agree urgently on steps to forge a closer union, the head of the European Commission says.

Polish Minister of Sports Joanna Mucha says she is "disgusted" at scenes of hooliganism that occured in Warsaw before and after the Euro 2012 match between Poland and Russia.

A German national suspected of involvement in last month's attack on a shopping centre in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is arrested in Tanzania.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met the Queen at Nottingham, where Prince William made his official tribute to the Queen for the Jubilee.

How Greek crisis may spread and what worries Europe's leaders

Attacks on al-Qaeda militants kill at least nine people in southern Yemen, officials say, with one of the strikes reportedly carried out by a US drone.

China threatens to pull its athletes out of their training camp in Leeds during the Olympics due to a visit by the Dalai Lama, the BBC understands.

The Today programme's Andrew Hosken speaks to Mimi Asher, a single mother who took on a notorious local gang threatening to destroy her family.

A wave of bombings across Iraq - including 10 locations in Baghdad - kills at least 84 people and wounds nearly 300, Iraqi police say.

Jeremy Hunt denies lying to Parliament over the BSkyB takeover, as MPs vote not to launch an inquiry over whether he broke ministerial rules.

Nenets reindeer herders in Russian Arctic

The art of getting people to do what they don't want to

A US judge orders a woman to stay away from the actor Jeff Goldblum after harassing him for the past decade.

Fresh fighting is reported in Syria, although both sides in the conflict reject its characterisation by a senior UN official as a civil war.

Most of the fish caught by British fishermen ends up on foreign tables, while cod comes from many hundreds of miles away. Why?