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Warnings that gunman Raoul Moat had threatened to harm his ex partner were not acted upon, the BBC discovers.

A young woman has her child "marriage" legally annulled in northern Rajasthan state, in what is thought to be the first case of its kind in India.

The European Patent Office revokes a patent used to halt mobile phone sales in Germany.

Your chance to quiz Cultural Olympiad director Ruth Mackenzie

Most of the ice being lost from Antarctica is going as a result of warm water eating the fringes of the continent, a new study confirms.

Anders Behring Breivik has told his trial in Oslo that a psychiatric report finding him insane in relation to the 77 killings he carried out was a "lie".

Frank Lampard is "gutted" that Chelsea captain John Terry will miss next month's Champions League final.

Ryan Day comes from 9-6 down to knock out Ding Junhui and Graeme Dott suffers his heaviest World Championship defeat, but Judd Trump progresses to the second round.

Eurozone leaders urge governments to focus on growth amid fears about the negative impact of austerity measures.

US President Barack Obama was not endangered by a prostitution scandal involving a dozen Secret Service agents in Colombia, a Senate panel is told.

Royal Mail faces a "spiral of decline" unless conditions are placed on firms competing with it, chief executive Moya Greene warns.

A Swedish student has been named as the winner of the Google Photography Prize.

Police have released a photograph of Madeleine as they believe she could appear now. They believe she could still be alive.

A polar bear cub is getting used to life at the Yakutsk zoo in eastern Russia after ecologists found it on its own on the Arctic shore.

Ed Miliband blames government cuts for the "catastrophic news" that the UK is back in recession but David Cameron says it would be "absolute folly" to change course.

Readers' photos on the theme Poland

Four senior judges in Kenya are declared unfit for office in a landmark ruling by a new committee investigating the impartiality of the judiciary.

Queen officially opens the Cutty Sark

People in Sierra Leone are awaiting the verdict of former Liberian President Charles Taylor's war crimes trial, 10 years on from the end of the civil war.

The Charlatans' Tim Burgess writes his memoirs