Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announces a ballot for the leadership of the Labor party to end a damaging split in the organisation.

A girl who suffered severe brain damage in a car crash caused by a speeding driver is awarded nearly £5m and her family £450,000 a year.

The number of people sleeping rough in England rises by 23% in a year, figures provided by local authorities countrywide show.

President Barack Obama apologises to the Afghan people for the burning of Korans by American troops at a US base outside Kabul.

Seven US Marines are killed in a mid-air collision between two helicopters during a training exercise in Arizona, officials say.

Sir Richard Branson wins the right to control richardbranson.xxx after an Australian man was ruled to have registered the domain "in bad faith".

Ethiopian and Somali troops capture Baidoa, a strategic stronghold of al-Shabab Islamist militants, as the UN approves extra African Union troops for Somalia.

Computer firm Hewlett-Packard sees a drop in first-quarter sales, as it attempts to turn itself around under new chief executive Meg Whitman.