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The UK Border Agency - recently branded "not fit for purpose" - paid £3.5m in performance-related bonuses to staff in one year, the BBC learns.

Twitter objects to a US court order ordering it to hand over old messages posted by a Occupy Wall Street protester.

The US adds two sons of Mexico's most wanted man Joaquin Guzman to its drugs kingpin blacklist, saying they play key roles in his Sinaloa cartel.

Some hospital services in Wales are in danger of "collapse" unless radical changes are made, an NHS Confederation report warns.

An American expert in violent self-defence has been stopped from entering the UK after the Home Office said his presence was against the "public good".

Former England, Chelsea and Manchester United star Ray Wilkins is charged with drinking and driving in Surrey.

Troubled retailer Clinton Cards has been placed in administration after earlier asking for trade in its shares to be suspended.

The smallest mammoth ever known to have existed roamed the island of Crete millions of years ago, researchers say.

A man is found in his car at Derriford Hospital two days after it is believed he died, police say.

Actor John Travolta faces fresh allegations of sexual assault after a second male masseur joined the $2 million (£1.23m) legal action against him.

A British man accused of links to Somalia's Islamist extremists appears in court in Kenya for allegedly plotting a bomb attack.

Two men are arrested in Carrickfergus and are being questioned about the murder of businessman Simon Tang in June 1996.

Why did CIA boss destroy secret waterboarding tapes?

A reward is offered for information about an attack that left a 94-year-old woman in a critical condition in hospital.

Nine men who ran a child sexual exploitation ring in Greater Manchester are given jail terms of between four and 19 years.

Supermarket group Sainsbury's reports an increase in sales and market share but a small dip in profits in what it describes as a "good year".

A new campaign is launched to highlight the dangers of walking across railway tracks, which claims about 50 lives a year in the UK.

The leader of Greece's radical left Syriza bloc, which rejects the EU/IMF bailout, is to meet the main pro-bailout parties on Wednesday.

Jailed Ukraine opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko is moved to a hospital to be treated for back pain by a German doctor.

The government has been accused of "wasting precious time" with school building plans, by the shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg.