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

The European Commission predicts that the eurozone economy will contract by 0.3% in 2012, having previously forecast 0.5% growth.

Singer Charlotte Church has settled her claim against News Group Newspapers over phone hacking, the BBC has learned.

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".