The International Monetary Fund asks Italy to ensure "decisive implementation" of spending cuts to reduce the nation's debt.

The European Commission is to reveal plans to reform the fishing industry after an admission that the current policy has been a failure.

UK unemployment fell 26,000 in the three months to May to 2.45m, but the claimant count increased in June, official figures show.

Twenty-six people were arrested during rioting in nationalist areas of north and south Belfast and Londonderry after Tuesday's Orange Order parades.

The Intelligence and Security Committee calls for its remit and structure to be overhauled, saying it is "significantly out of date".

The chief executive of a water park society is jailed after admitting fraud totalling more than £660,000.

The family of Milly Dowler meet Prime Minister David Cameron at Downing Street after claims the 13-year-old's phone was hacked by the News of the World.

A report published on Wednesday criticises a Catholic diocese in County Cork for a failure to report all complaints of abuse to police.