MPs Urge Brown To Sack Miliband

Politics
Two Labour backbenchers have called for David Miliband to be sacked. More

White House hopeful Barack Obama has hit back over a TV ad which questions his readiness to lead the US. More

News
Prince William is to spend time with special forces in the next stage of his army career. More

Numerous people were hurt including children when an open-top bus overturned and two cars crashed in Dorset. More

A Kent car dealer was shocked to find the person who had run him over was seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher. More

Miliband Denies Leadership Bid

Politics
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has denied he is mounting a leadership bid despite writing about the party's future with no mention of Gordon Brown. More

News
A Briton accused of hacking into top secret military computers has lost a Law Lords appeal against being extradited to the US for trial. More

Journalists covering the Olympic Games in Beijing will not have uncontrolled access to the internet, Chinese and Olympic officials say. More

A large chunk of Arctic ice shelf has broken free of the northern Canadian coast, scientists say. More

Entertainment
David Duchovny talks about X-Files: I Want To Believe and the possibility of more. More

BA And Iberia In Merger Talks

Business
British Airways and Spain's national airline Iberia are in talks to merge. More

With the American housing market in its worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Bush is expected to act to slow the slide. More

News
President Bush has approved the death sentence of a US Army soldier who was convicted of rape and murder. More

Police are investigating reports that human remains have been found on Saddleworth Moor on the border of West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. More

Entertainment
Sir Salman Rushdie says he may write a book about the fatwa imposed on him 20 years ago. More

Labour MP Says Brown Should Resign

Politics
Gordon Prentice Labour MP for Pendle has urged Gordon Brown to resign. More

Barack Obama's first meeting in London was with former prime minister Tony Blair. More

Business
Rises in gas and electricity prices in the near future will have serious consequences for millions of households an MPs committee has said. More

Technology
Former workers of Google have launched a rival search engine. More

Entertainment
Editor of BBC flagship programme resigns to join Google. More

Is This The End For Gordon Brown?

Politics
The Scottish National Party pull off a stunning by-election win to take Glasgow East one of Labour's safest seats. More

The general secretary of one of Britain's biggest trade unions has called for Gordon Brown to face a leadership challenge this autumn. More

Business
The number of US home foreclosures more than doubled between April and June from the previous year. More

Technology
Security experts are warning of attack code that are starting to circulate online. More

Entertainment
The X-Files: I Want To Believe has its premiere in Hollywood. More

Have a great weekend. See you Monday!

Formal Border Checks Proposed For UK And Eire

Politics
Britain and the Republic of Ireland are to have the first formal border checks in almost 80 years it has been proposed. More

Barack Obama is in Berlin for a keynote speech on how he sees relations between America and Europe. More

President George W Bush has explained the credit crunch savaging US financial markets by saying ''Wall Street got drunk''. More

News
The last American combat brigades brought in last year for the US troop ''surge'' have now left Iraq. More

Sport
Athletes from Iraq have been banned from taking part in the Beijing Olympics. More

Government To Tackle Forced Marriage

Politics
The government are tackling the issue of forced marriages by changing the rules for people bringing in foreign spouses. More

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama continues his world tour in Jordan. More

News
Hurricane Dolly was due to hit the Mexico-Texas coast Wednesday with 100mph winds. It is due to make landfall at around midday (1700 GMT). More

The Conservatives are vowing to create 100,000 apprenticeship places and David Cameron says his party would offer small and medium businesses in England £2,000 for every person who completed. More

Sport
Spain's Carlos Sastre took the yellow jersey after taking the stage win into L'Alpe-d'Huez in the famous Tour de France. More

Israelis Hit By New Digger Attack

News
A Palestinian man in a mechanical digger has rammed traffic in west Jerusalem. More

People applying for sensitive airport jobs will from the end of the year face foreign criminal record checks. More

Politics
People will be able to petition MPs online under new government plans. More

Business
UK drivers are set to benefit as a number of national supermarket chains announce plans to cut the price of fuel. More

Entertainment
Comedian Jay Leno is to leave The Tonight Show next may NBC have announced. More

Illegal Worker At Border Agency

Politics
An illegal worker has been working at The UK Border Agency which is tasked with tracking down illegal immigrants. More

The unemployed will be forced to work for their benefits as part of welfare reforms unveiled by Work and Pensions secretary James Purnell. More

News
How reputedly the wettest place on earth is becoming drier. More

Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has met the Iraqi prime minister on his first visit to Baghdad as part of a major foreign tour. More

A wartime massacre in the French village of Maille is going to be examined by a German prosecutor. More

Government Fiscal Rules Unchanged For Now

Politics
Chancellor Alastair Darling says he has made no decision yet on relaxing government rules on borrowing. More

Sport
British pro-cyclist Mark Cavendish claimed his fourth stage win in the Tour de France today to become the first Briton to win four stages in a single Tour. More

News
The Ministry of Defence has admitted more than 650 laptops have been stolen, more than previously admitted. More

The islands hoping to become a tax haven. More

Entertainment
Actor Billy Crystal says he is ''honoured'' to join the 9/11 memorial fund as director. More

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UK Ratifies EU's Lisbon Treaty

Politics
The UK has ratified the EU's Lisbon Treaty despite doubts that it will come into force. More

The government has announced that it will double the compensation offered to the UK's most gravely injured troops. More

Security minister Lord West has said that no decision has been made on the proposed phone call and email database. More

News
Four people found guilty of involvement in the Madrid train bombings in 2004 have had their convictions overturned by Spain's Supreme Court. More

Americans live shorter lives than citizens of almost every other developed nation, according to a report from several US charities. More

Brown Defends 2p Fuel Decision

Politics
Gordon Brown has defended his decision to postpone the planned 2p rise in fuel duty after David Cameron suggested it was timed to coincide with next weeks by-election. More

All most one-fifth of MPs have suffered mental health problems at some time. More

Business
A ''rent first, by later'' scheme is heading a series of measures put forward by the government to breath new life into the housing market. More

News
A soldier who deserted from the US army has been deported back to the US from Canada where he was seeking refugee status. More

Entertainment
Actor William Petersen star of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Grissom is to leave the series. More

Proposed Call Database ''Step Too Far...''

Politics
Ministers have been warned that the proposed phone call and email database is a ''step too far for the British way of life''. More

David Cameron has called for US-style protection for firms at risk of going bust. More

News
US presidential candidate Barack Obama has said his main priority as US president will be to end the US involvement in Iraq. More

Ex-Gurkhas who claim they have been racially discriminated against by the UK government have won the right to go to the High Court. More

The south-western states suffering the eighth consecutive year of drought. More

Knife Crime Crackdown On 'Problem Families'

Politics
Gordon Brown is to target ''problem families'' in the crackdown on knife crime. More

Justice Secretary Jack Straw has set out plans to reform the House of Lords. More

News
In times of war it is difficult to distinguish between friend or foe and cases of friendly fire are commonplace. More

Business
Despite spiralling fuel prices defence and aerospace companies are flocking to the Farnborough Air Show in Hampshire. More

Entertainment
Hollywood star Patrick Stewart who plays Professor Xavier in the X-Men films is to become a real-life professor. More

Davis Attacked By Labour On By-Election

Politics
Labour have launched an attack on by-election winner David Davis. More

Councils have said they are ''more than happy'' not to sell voters' data after a report slams the practice. More

News
The Archbishop of York has called on the prime minister to allow failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers the right to work. More

The fiancee of a 21 July bomb plotter has been jailed for helping him to escape dressed in her mother's burka. More

Business
The storm over M&S 'tax on bigger bras'. More

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Road Tax Increase Will Hit 9.4m

Politics
Plans aimed to tackle so-called ''gas-guzzlers'' will lead to an estimated 9.4 million motorists having to pay more road tax the government admitted. More

After announcing plans to make MEPs' expenses more transparent a Conservative MEP called David Cameron's attempt ''half baked''. More

A Parliamentary committee has said that Select committees should be created to enable MPs to check the work of Regional Development Agencies. More

Technology
Almost half the online population is at risk because users have not installed updates to their browsers, a study says. More

Entertainment
Robert Downey Jr is tipped to play detective Sherlock Holmes. More

Cameron Launches MEP Crackdown

Politics
Conservative leader David Cameron has launched a new crackdown on his MEPs' expenses. More

Gordon Brown has said of the G8 countries 'revulsion' at the Zimbabwe crisis and urged countries to support an arms embargo. More

George Osbourne shadow chancellor has said that a Conservative government would encourage schemes under which people would be paid to recycle. More

News
Investigators from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre feel they are the nearing the end of a hunt spanning half a century. More

Entertainment
George Sampson the winner of ITV show Britain's Got Talent has signed up to make his West End debut in a hip-hop musical. More

Ex-MI5 Chief Attacks 42 Days

Politics
The former head of MI5 has dismissed government plans to extend the time terror suspects can be detained. More

A new law to give judges the power to allow anonymous evidence in court cases is ''too broad'' say barristers. More

A committee of peers has warned that the government is not doing enough to protect people from internet crime. More

Former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer has joined a US law firm a year after leaving the cabinet. More

News
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has signed a deal to base part of Washington's missile defence system in the Czech Republic. More

London Remembers 7/7

News
Hundreds of people crowded into King's Cross station to remember the 52 people killed in the 7/7 bombings. More

Nursery staff are being told to look for racist behaviour among toddlers. More

Technology
Europeans suspected of putting movies and music on file-sharing networks could be thrown off the web under proposals before Brussels. More

Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee says governments, scientists and businesses should do more to ensure the web stays open for all. More

Sport
Rafael Nadal who won an epic five-set match against Roger Federer to become Wimbledon champion will rest because of injury. More

Watchdog To Review MPs' Expenses

Politics
The committee on standards in public life is considering its own enquiry into MPs' expenses. More

News
Britain's top spy is unconscious and seriously ill in hospital. More

Conspiracy theorists say that on 9/11 not two but three towers collapsed. More

As America celebrates Independence Day thousands of Californians have been told to leave their homes as the wildfires spread. More

Entertainment
David ''The Hoff'' Hasselhoff has set up his own networking site. More

Have a great weekend and stay safe. See you Monday!

MPs Vote Against Inflation-Busting Pay Rises

Politics
MPs have fallen into line with Gordon Brown by voting against above-inflation pay rises. More

Emergency legislation to protect the identity of witnesses has been unveiled by Justice Secretary Jack Straw. More

Gordon Brown today hinted that his government will look again at the forthcoming 2p rise in fuel duty. More

Technology
A US court has ruled that Google must divulge the viewing habits of all users who have viewed videos on YouTube. More

Entertainment
Kylie Minogue attended a ceremony at Buckingham Palace today to be formally appointed OBE. More

Angry Truckers Protest In London

News
Hundreds of truckers arrived in London to protest at fuel duty and to seek action by the government. More

A Palestinian man drove a bulldozer into several cars and a bus before being shot dead in Jerusalem. More

Politics
MP's are preparing to vote on car tax proposals said to hit the poorest harder. More

Business
Britain's biggest union, Unite, is merging with United Steelworkers Union (USW) to create a new ''global'' union. More

Entertainment
BBC TV show Top Gear has been rapped after viewers complained about ''highly irresponsible'' footage. More

New Blow To EU Treaty From Poland

Politics
Poland's President Lech Kaczynski says he will not sign the EU's reform treaty even though the Polish parliament has ratified it. More

Ministers face a new fight over the 10p income tax band. More

News
Robert Mugabe has told the western world to 'go hang' in response to criticism over the presidential election. More

Plans for a Ground Zero rebuild have been scrapped. More

Technology
An experiment to surf the net for a month unprotected left inboxes full of spam. More