The families of five British men being held hostage in Iraq for a year have made a joint appeal for their release.

An Irish-born former US navy officer has admitted making hundreds of threatening phone calls.

A crime-hit pub landlord has been told to remove razor wire from the outside of his West Midlands pub as it "detracts from the area's character".

Two scuba divers have been found alive after spending a night missing on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

The luxury goods company Burberry has reported rising profits despite what it calls "challenging times".

The Movement for Democratic Change leader's first engagement was to visit supporters hurt in political violence.

Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has returned to Harare to begin his presidential election run-off campaign, after spending weeks abroad.

It took about five minutes, yielded a one-word answer, and gave little real flavour of the subject. Still - it was conducted using two whiteboards, two marker pens, and it was done over a distance of 3,471 miles (5,585 km).