The UK government rejects an EU demand for an extra 11.2bn euros (£9.5bn) from member states to settle unpaid EU bills.

Banks in Cyprus are to reopen on Thursday at 10:00 GMT, 10 days after they closed as a controversial bailout was negotiated, the Cypriot central bank says.

The Treasury writes to government departments, warning most ministers that they will have to cut up to 10% of their budgets for the year 2015/16.

There was no record of any complaints about animals at the address where a 14-year-old girl died after being attacked by dogs, council officials say.

A judicial review into the consequences of the cut in housing benefit is set to go ahead after the government lost an attempt to have the action thrown out.

The Rolling Stones are named as one of the three headline acts for the 2013 Glastonbury Festival, the first time they have played the event.

A British soldier from 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment who died in Afghanistan on Tuesday is named as L/Cpl Jamie Webb.

The merger of American Airlines and US Airways is approved by a US bankruptcy judge, moving the two firms closer to forming the world's largest carrier.