The strategies used to sell strips of land to unwary investors have been outlined to the BBC by a former landbanking broker.

Another teammate of Lance Armstrong is reported to have alleged the champion cyclist used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career.

Labour leader Ed Miliband is set to urge his party to set out a "national mission" to regain voters' trust.

Legal action is being taken by an unnamed professional footballer against the micro-blogging site.

Chinese and South Korean leaders will start a visit to Japan by touring Fukushima prefecture, where a nuclear plant was damaged by the March earthquake and tsunami.

Young Spaniards plan to defy a ban on their protest camp in Madrid as their challenge to economic austerity spreads.

A teenager is to appear before magistrates after a policeman was stabbed in south London.

A Nato oil tanker explodes in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 15 people, say officials, and a second convoy is also attacked.