From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 4:13 PM

Andy Hayman, who led the investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World in 2006, reacted angrily when asked whether he had ever accepted money from the media."Good God. Absolutely not. I can’t believe you suggested that", he responded, before saying that the question was an attack on ...

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:44 PM

A new bill has set penalties for parents and guardians of children under 18 who attend mosques.

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:10 PM

Senior police officers who investigated the phone hacking scandal have been answering questions from MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee.Assistant Commissioner John Yates, Ex-Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, former Met Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman and Deputy Assistant Commi...

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:10 PM

A campaign group, Human Rights Watch, has urged President Obama to order a criminal investigation into members of the Bush administration because of what it calls 'overwhelming evidence of torture'.The former president has argued that the practices such as waterboarding were authorized...

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:10 PM

Members of the Home Affairs Committee quizzed former Met police Assistant Commissioner Andy Hayman over his role in the first investigation of phone hacking.Conservative member Lorraine Fullbrook said Mr Hayman would be seen as "a dodgy geezer" who had presided over a disaster.

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:10 PM

A cyclist has posted footage online of a road-rage assault on his friend in an attempt to catch the attacker.Simon Page, 49, was punched in the head by a car driver in Bexley High Street, Bexley, south-east London, in May.Mr Page was one of seven cyclists riding from Dover to London in training ...

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:10 PM

News International "deliberately tried to thwart a criminal investigation" into phone hacking allegations, a former senior Met Police officer has said.Appearing before the Home Affairs Select Committee, Peter Clarke said he was "certain that they had something to hide" and that there was a "comp...

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:10 PM

Senior police officers have accused News International of trying to obstruct the original investigation into phone hacking.Appearing before a committee of MPs, the Assistant Commissioner of the Met, John Yates - who ruled out reopening the 2005 inquiry - accused the News of the World of failing ...

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:10 PM

The "God" of Japanese manga goes on display plus a summary of other arts stories from around the world.

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:10 PM

The half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been assassinated in Kandahar.Ahmad Wali Karzai, a leading power broker in the country’s south, was shot dead at his home in a blow to Nato's battle against the Taliban in the area.He was shot twice by his long-time head of security Sard...

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:10 PM

More than six months on from the toppling of the first Middle East regime in the Arab Uprising many people are still trying to flee the region.For thousands of North Africans and sub-Saharan migrant workers one of the main routes is from Libya to the Italian island of Lampedusa.The BBC’s Europe E...

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 3:10 PM

Beekeeping may not be what you would expect to find 14 storeys up.But in Hong Kong an organization of beekepers, artists and designers is trying to spread urban beekeeping.There are already 11 beehives on Hong Kong rooftops.Eric Camara reports.

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:38 AM

Ireland, Greece and Portugal have needed - and taken - bailouts, with Italy the latest country to have financial problems.

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:05 AM

Dancers Carlos Acosta and Zenaida Yanowsky joined BBC Breakfast to talk about their tour Premieres Plus.The show features collaborations with major UK dance stars and musicians, the staging has been produced by Acosta.

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 10:05 AM

Gordon Brown has alleged News International used "known criminals" to get access to personal information when Labour was in power, in an exclusive interview with the BBC.The former prime minister accused the newspaper group of having links to the "criminal underworld".He also told BBC correspond...

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 9:34 AM

Assistant Commissioner John Yates, who reviewed a Met police investigation into phone hacking, has said he is 99% certain his own mobile was hacked.

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:32 AM

Clashes broke up in the Chilean capital last night between riot police and demonstrators who were supporting striking miners.

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 5:59 AM

Gordon Brown has accused News International of using "known criminals" to get access to personal information about himself and others when Labour was in power.BBC News has live coverage of all the latest developments in the ongoing saga over phone hacking involving the press.

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 4:07 AM

American securities and accounting regulators are meeting their Chinese counterparts in Beijing this week to negotiate an agreement on joint inspections of auditing firms in China. After a series of accounting scandals at overseas-listed Chinese companies ways of better supervision are high on th...

From: BBC News on Tue, Jul 12 2011 2:58 AM

In Northern Ireland at least six police officers have been injured after rioting broke out in west Belfast.