The security forces of Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi detain and beat up a BBC team trying to reach the strife-torn western city of Zawiya.

An Oxfordshire multi-millionaire sacked two of his staff in a fit of rage over a chicken dinner, a tribunal hears.

The children's charity Barnardo's has agreed to run family welfare services at the government's proposed accommodation centre for some failed asylum seekers.

MPs are calling for a reduction in the number of ministers after the next election, to strengthen the independence of Parliament.

An air stewardess suffered serious spinal injuries when her plane hit turbulence and she was thrown into the air, a report says.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport axed projects and quangos without fully assessing how much it would cost to do so, the National Audit Office says.

Big changes to public service pension schemes are expected to be recommended by a government-commissioned report published later.

London's Natural History Museum will return the skeletal remains of 138 indigenous people taken from the Torres Strait Islands in the 19th Century.