Great Britain's Dai Greene wins the 400m hurdles as Asafa Powell becomes the fastest man in the world this year in the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne.

Veteran journalist David Dunseith whose career in broadcasting spanned four decades has died.

Lennox Lewis warns David Haye he must knock out Wladimir Klitschko because there is "no way" the judges will award him a points win in Germany on Saturday.

At least 13 people are killed after a passenger bus in southern Afghanistan strikes a roadside bomb, police officials say.

One of two French hostages released by the Afghan Taliban tells the BBC he believes there was an exchange deal involving money and prisoners.

Labour wins the Inverclyde by-election but its majority is more than halved.

Councillors in Edinburgh decide to carry on with the city's troubled trams project - but will have to find another £200m to fund it.

The UK government did not give sufficient consideration to the wider impacts of closing the Forensic Science Service, an MPs' inquiry concludes.