Defending champion Mark Selby and John Higgins progress to the quarter-finals at the Masters with first-round victories.

Mark Chapman introduces Premier League highlights, with Newcastle United meeting Manchester City and Stoke City playing Liverpool.

Reports of arrests in the Madeleine McCann case appear on Monday's front pages, along with fears about the true scale of the "obesity epidemic".

England captain Alastair Cook disagrees with the decision to recall Australia's David Warner to the crease in Melbourne.

Actress Alexandra Bastedo, best known for her role in the 1960s television sci-fi series The Champions, dies aged 67 following a long illness.

The UK Treasury is to say it will honour all UK government debt issued up to the date of the referendum on Scottish independence.

A rare fungus discovered near a former Edinburgh war hospital may have been unwittingly brought to the area by World War One soldiers.

Thousands of Israelis have filed past the body of ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who died at 85 after eight years in a coma.