Former US Vice President Al Gore will not face charges over claims he assaulted a masseuse in an Oregon hotel room in 2006.

A lack of specialist medics to care for rape victims could be hampering conviction rates, doctors believe.

The sisters who had surgery to combat family cancer threat

The founder of Wikileaks rejects US claims he has blood on his hands after releasing leaked documents on the Afghan war.

Many young people working free as interns may legally be entitled to pay, a report says.

A Catholic bishop calls for an independent inquiry into the deaths of 11 civilians killed by the Army in Ballymurphy in west Belfast in 1971.

Five Taliban are removed from a sanctions list by the UN Security Council, a move sought by Kabul to ease rapprochement with insurgents.

A north London grocery store is committing "wildlife massacre" by selling squirrel meat, an animal welfare group has claimed. Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva) accused a branch of Budgens of supporting a "barbaric and needless cull" of grey squirrels.

A US soldier accused of leaking video of a deadly 2007 Iraq helicopter attack to the Wikileaks website is transferred to a Virginia base pending trial.

Pat Richards kicks 10 points as Wigan move one step closer to the Super League leader's shield with victory over defending champions Leeds.

Andy Turner leads Great Britain's medal haul on the fourth day of the European Championships as he takes gold in the 110m hurdles.

Three men wearing ski masks have stolen more than £10,000 from a man in the Carntyne area of Glasgow, police say.

The widow of a man believed to have been killed by the IRA in 1981 said she felt sad but relieved that her husband's remains appeared to have been found.

The fossil of a whale is at the centre of a bizarre customs wrangle at Cairo airport, the BBC's Jon Leyne reports.

Northwest Airlines will plead guilty and pay a $38m fine for fixing air-cargo prices, the US justice department says.

Syria's president and the Saudi king call on Lebanon's rival factions to avoid turning to violence amid mounting political tensions in the country.

Two sisters from north Manchester are detained after one stabbed her boyfriend and the other let him bleed to death.

A nine-year-old girl from Wales has died in a rafting accident while on holiday in Turkey.

A Romanian man and a woman are jailed for 30 months for forcing six children, the youngest aged two, to beg on London's streets.

Greece will use military vehicles to restore fuel supplies cut by a lorry drivers' strike, the government says.