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The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh pose for wedding pictures with a newlywed couple during a Jubilee visit to Manchester.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton is on pole for the Malaysian GP, with Jenson Button second and Michael Schumacher third.

Benedict XVI begins his first visit Mexico

Disabled parents face both challenges and some strange attitudes from other people, one father writes.

Seventeen major food and drink companies firms promise to cut calories in their products to help tackle obesity.

Verdi's opera, La Traviata, is being staged on a massive barge in Sydney's iconic harbour.

Opening free schools in parts of England where they are not needed is a "shameful" waste of taxpayers' money, the leader of a head teachers' union has said.

The British inventor who says he has invented a pain-free needle

US lawmakers release $88.6m (£56m) in development aid for the Palestinians that has been frozen for more than six months.

A review of qualifications for nursery staff and childminders in England has highlighted concerns about literacy and numeracy skills among workers.

Sport Relief has raised £50m in public donations, a new on-the-night record for the charity telethon.

Guatemala arrests former police chief Marlene Blanco Lapola for alleged involvement in extra-judicial killings of criminal suspects.

Video footage has been released showing the inside of the Toulouse apartment of Mohamed Merah, the man who shot dead 7 people.

The actor talks to Matthew Stadlen about the "madness" of performing on stage, how much of himself appears in his roles, his desire to play a woman - and the "chemistry set" of his emotions.

The stamp duty holiday for first-time house buyers has ended, meaning they will join others in paying 1% tax on properties worth more than £125,000.

New clashes flare in Egypt's Port Said after al-Masry football club is suspended over match violence, which left dozens of people dead in February.

Barack Obama has revealed his nomination for the new head of the World Bank. He is a Korean-born American academic called Jim Yong Kim, who has a sideline in musical performance, as John McManus reports.

Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has called on her opponents to put their differences aside and join forces to campaign for the Union.

Burma gets a taste of election campaign fever

I fell two miles from a plane and survived