Radio DJ Dave Lee Travis has been taken off air at radio station Magic AM after being arrested and bailed by police investigating hundreds of claims of abuse by the late Jimmy Savile and others.
China’s ruling Communist party unveils its seven-man leadership team – so who are the men who will run China for the next five years?
As Sally Bercow is named as one of those expected to be the first to receive legal letters for allegedly defaming Lord McAlpine, Channel 4 News examines the chances for legal success over “Twibel”.
Who controls policing in the UK will be decided at the ballot boxes on Thursday. But who are the people in the running to be police and crime commissioners?
From Muslim teacher to “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, Abu Qatada has been presented in many ways – but is he a danger?
Military activity escalates on Israel’s borders as an errant mortar from Syria lands in the Golan Heights and tensions increase on the Gaza Strip.
As many as 12 people are feared dead after a strong earthquake hits northern Myanmar in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A man in his 70s is arrested as a part of a police investigation into allegations that Jimmy Savile sexually abused children.
Further members of staff could be following former director-general George Entwistle out of the doors of the BBC in the wake of the Newsnight scandal, BBC Trust Chairman Lord Patten says.
The UK’s most senior judges will decide in February whether the relatives of soldiers killed whilst fighting in Iraq can pursue the government for damages.
An encampment of Syrian government forces has been targeted by two suicide bomb attacks today, with reports that dozens have been killed or injured.
An encampment of Syrian government forces has been targeted by two suicide bomb attacks today, with reports that dozens have been killed or injured.
England crush Fiji, but Wales succumb to Argentina, in the first of the autumn series of international rugby union matches.
Israeli tank shells kill at least two Palestinians and wound 20 in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian medics and local eyewitnesses said.
Former prime minister Gordon Brown meets two friends of activist schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai as a part of a global day of action promoting education for girls.