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African Union (AU) forces in Somalia say they have captured a strategic town near the capital, Mogadishu, after Islamist militants pulled out.

An obese teenager, whose house had to be modified so she could be transferred to an ambulance, has spent a "settled night" in hospital say health officials.

Senior Chinese leader Wu Bangguo has cancelled a trip to the UK in protest at David Cameron's meeting with the Dalai Lama.

A guitar manufacturer which has made customised instruments for some of the world's biggest stars, including Bruce Springsteen and Van Morrison, is going into liquidation.

A pupil who made cakes containing cannabis in a cookery lesson is expelled from his Newcastle school.

The High Court has rejected an attempt by HMRC to get the so-called "football creditors rule" abolished in England.

A former soldier is jailed indefinitely with a minimum term of eight years for a string of sex attacks on women he met in pubs and online.

Satellite broadcaster clashes with US TV networks over a set-top box that strips ads out of recorded programmes

The daughter of PC David Rathband will take his place as an Olympic torchbearer when the flame arrives in South Tyneside, it is announced.

24 hours of news photos: 25 May 2012

An exam board has been criticised for a GCSE question asking pupils to explain why some people are prejudiced against Jews.

The remains of 12 South Korean soldiers return home, in the first repatriation of soldiers from the South killed during the Korean War 60 years ago.

BBC reporter Paul Wood has been inside the Syrian town of Rastan which has been under attack by the country's military despite a UN brokered ceasefire.

The chief executive of the Student Loans Company, who attracted controversy over his tax arrangements, is to stand down when his contract expires early next year.

A man in Austria shoots his son in the head at a school, leaving the boy critically ill, then flees and dies in an apparent suicide.

BBC agrees a new deal to broadcast Premier League highlights on Match of the Day until the end of the 2015-16 season.

A US Senate panel cuts $33m (£21m) in aid to Pakistan in response to the jailing of a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden.

Two of Baby Peter's social workers lose their appeal against an employment tribunal ruling that they were fairly sacked.

The garden inspired by a war zone

Excavations reveal a medieval luxury shopping mall