Lufthansa says it hopes to resume flights early on Saturday after cabin crew agreed to end strike action that stranded thousands of air passengers.

A conman who tweeted as a police officer tackling rioters in London and posed as an army major is jailed for five years.

Britain, Germany and France urge fellow European Union countries to impose more sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme.

Smokers across England are being urged to quit for a month in a government campaign.

A sprinting cheetah is like "a rear-wheel-drive car," say scientists who have mapped the big cat's muscle fibres.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she intends to list the Pakistan-based militant Haqqani network as a terrorist organisation.

The family home of a British man who was shot dead in the Alps along with his wife and two other people is to be searched by police later.

Renowned author Philip Roth criticises Wikipedia for refusing him permission to edit an entry about his own novel, The Human Stain.