More than 80 events are set to take place later in protest over threatened library closures and cuts to services.

David Cameron will criticise "state multiculturalism" in his first speech as prime minister on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism.

The US Army denies ethnic Hmong leader Vang Pao, who led a CIA-sponsored secret war in Laos in the 1960s, a burial in Arlington National Cemetery.

The Queen has appeared to have given her blessing to the Oscar-nominated film The King's Speech.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak holds talks with key ministers to try to revive an economy hit by 12 days of protests calling for his resignation.

Tins of fish sold in two shops in Norwich are recalled because of health risks posed to consumers.

The Trades Union Congress has criticised a proposal to scrap the May Day bank holiday in favour of a holiday in the autumn.

Five men posing as police officers handcuff a man and search his flat and a pub in Greater Manchester.