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Bakers voice their anger at plans to hike VAT

Leading Cambodian environmentalist Chut Wutty is shot dead in an apparent shoot-out with police while investigating illegal logging.

Eric Drysdale says the reaction to his part in the SFA decision to ban Rangers from transfers for a year has come as "a shock".

The Queen meets Wales' Grand Slam-winning rugby team at the start of her two-day tour of Wales to mark her Diamond Jubilee.

William Hague denies claims that Neil Heywood - who died in China last November - might have been a member of British intelligence.

Ofcom asks News of the World publisher News Group for more documents relating to phone hacking as it decides whether BSkyB is fit to hold a broadcasting licence.

Firefighters are tackling a blaze which has trapped residents at a tenement in the centre of Dundee.

Chelsea captain John Terry can lift the Champions League trophy if they win the final against Bayern Munich.

A senior civil servant refuses at least 10 times to answer questions about his role in the row over Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt and News Corp.

First Minister Alex Salmond is questioned over his relations with Rupert Murdoch and the Donald Trump.

A man whose body was found wedged through a 6in-wide bedroom door panel died as a result of an accident, a coroner says.

Veteran actor Robert Redford has criticised David Cameron after he suggested that UK film-makers should focus on commercially viable movies.

US Congressman Paul Ryan's defends this budget plan in a speech at Georgetown University, after faculty and priests at the school criticised the plan.

Second seed Andy Murray breezes past Santiago Giraldo with a comfortable 6-1 6-2 victory at the Barcelona Open.

Earth's glaciers are seriously out of balance with the global climate and are already committed to losing almost 40% of their volume, a study reports.

Three men have been arrested by police investigating the alleged naming of a rape victim on the Twitter website.

Hundreds of bakers have protested outside Downing Street at the government's plans to charge 20% VAT on hot takeaway snacks.

A former soldier blinded by an IRA bomb is awarded more than £200,000 in compensation by an employment tribunal after he was bullied at work.

Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has said that 500 UK troops will be able to leave Afghanistan by Christmas, because the Afghan army has been increasing its combat role.

Renewables can be a cheap form of energy within years, Prime Minister David Cameron says, as governments aim for global spread of clean power.