An eight-year-old boy falls into the River Wear in County Durham, prompting a major search operation.

Army bomb disposal experts make safe a 'viable explosive device' which had been left in a vehicle near Newry, Northern Ireland.

A new music award is presented in Liverpool to highlight the city's thriving music scene and prove there is more to Liverpool than The Beatles.

Spanish unemployment hits a new record high of 5.64 million, official figures show, hours after the country's debt rating was downgraded.

More than 100 officers search for double-murder suspect James Allen, who the police have warned the public not to approach.

The Leveson inquiry rejects Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt's bid to bring forward his testimony, amid a row over his handling of the proposed BSkyB takeover.

Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan says opponents planned his downfall from a sex scandal to stop his French presidential bid, days before the run-off.

The US Secret Service tightens rules on drinking and behaviour on foreign trips, as it battles with the fallout from a sex scandal in Colombia.