Nato says it backs President Hamid Karzai's order banning Afghan security forces from calling in foreign air strikes in residential areas.

The parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann say proposals to underpin new press regulations with a Royal Charter are "a compromise of a compromise".

A mass for gay and lesbian Catholics is being held for the last time in central London because the Church says it goes against its views on sexuality.

Tens of thousands of pilgrims attend St Peter's Square in Rome for one of the final public appearances of Pope Benedict XVI.

The work and pensions secretary criticises people taking part in back to work schemes "who think they're too good" for stacking supermarket shelves.

At least six foreign workers have been kidnapped by gunmen who attacked a construction company site in northern Nigeria, police say.

The UK is facing a "big battle" in the EU institutions over rules governing access to benefits, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says.

The government's proposed change to housing benefit rules, dubbed the "bedroom tax", is "perverse", shadow minister Stephen Timms says.