Wall Street banking giant Goldman Sachs is fined £20m by the UK's financial watchdog, the BBC learns.

Closing dozens of small embassies to save money would be a "false economy" as they do not cost much, says William Hague.

The BBC's Nick Robinson is travelling the length of the A1 to get the public's opinion on the Spending Review.

Day two of the penultimate round of County Championship matches as it happened.

A man is found guilty of murdering his father, whose remains were found in concrete in a garden in Buckinghamshire.

John Higgins is cleared of all match-fixing allegations but admits bringing snooker into disrepute, resulting in a £75,000 fine and a ban until November.

A Briton is thought to have drowned after going to the aid of his father, who also died, while the pair swam in the sea off Spain's Costa Tropical.

Parliament is to debate allegations that MPs had their mobile phones hacked into by News of the World journalists.

Former newspaper editor and Britain's Got Talent judge Piers will replace US TV presenter Larry King on the US network CNN, it is announced.

A 29-year-old soldier on foot patrol in Afghanistan was killed by a sophisticated explosive device which was hard to detect, an inquest hears.