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Jermain Defoe scores twice as Tottenham come from behind to beat a spirited Stevenage 3-1 in their FA Cup fifth-round replay.

A pair of scorching explosions on the Sun's surface is sparking the biggest magnetic storm the Earth has experienced in five years.

The government in Sudan rejects allegations of crimes against humanity in South Kordofan made by a former senior UN official.

England's Ellen Gandy secures her second Team GB Olympic berth with victory in the women's 200m butterfly final.

Argentine Transport Secretary Juan Pablo Schiavi resigns because of health problems, two weeks after the country suffered its worst train crash in decades.

Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas have just returned from the Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya with their remote-controlled camera.

MPs urge the government to impose sanctions on Russian officials involved in the death of a lawyer for a British firm who clashed with the authorities over corruption allegations.

Opponents of the government's overhaul of the NHS are holding a last-ditch rally in Westminster, aimed at persuading ministers to change their minds.

The Spanish town of Rasquera has leased land to grow cannabis in order to pay its 1.3 million euros debt.

A building with a hole in its centre is dividing public opinion in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.

Australia's military faces years of abuse inquiries, after a review sparked by a sex scandal found 775 "plausible" abuse claims dating back 60 years.

An alleged victim of a child sex ring tells a court of the moment she woke to find she was being raped.

Talks in Jordan over the deportation of radical cleric Abu Qatada were "constructive", the home secretary says as she returns from a three-day trip.

The government suffers three fresh House of Lords defeats over its plans to reform the legal aid system.

The mother of a Bolton man shot dead in a police operation says she hopes an investigation will conclude officers unlawfully killed her son.

A Sunderland MP criticises a government minister who told the Commons that Nissan's Wearside plant was "somewhere near" Bolton.

Researchers in Cambridge have deciphered the genetic code of the gorilla - which is the last group of great apes to be sequenced.

Fly-halves Owen Farrell and Charlie Hodgson have insisted that England play to win in matches, and do not seek simply to avoid defeats.

Apple unveils the third version of its best-selling tablet computer with a "retina display" screen and a chip offering improved graphics.

The number of elderly and vulnerable people having a meal delivered to their homes drops dramatically with a 76% drop in one health trust area.