Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt injures shoulder during training with the Netherlands, according to Dutch boss Bert van Marwijk

The EU budget commissioner says he sees no grounds for the UK to keep its budget rebate.

The BBC's Orla Guerin has returned to the Pakistan town of Nowshera, which was one of the first areas to be hit by the rising waters.

South African trade unions suspend a nationwide strike which has paralysed schools and hospitals for 20 days.

A primary school is closed in Antrim after an explosive device is found by an eight-year-old pupil and carried into a classroom.

The police and not the government should decide whether to re-open the investigation into the News of the World phone-hacking allegations, Home Secretary Theresa May has said.

The body of a prominent Afghan broadcast journalist is found near his home in the capital, Kabul, police say.

England manager Fabio Capello says striker Wayne Rooney is in the right frame of mind to play against Switzerland on Tuesday despite allegations about his private life.

Charges against two people accused of trying to extort money from actor John Travolta, following the death of his son in the Bahamas, are dropped.

Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson says he is happy to meet police after fresh claims of phone tapping while he was a tabloid editor.

England manager Fabio Capello insists striker Wayne Rooney will play in the Euro 2012 qualifier away to Switzerland on Tuesday.

Tony Blair cancels a planned book signing in London on Wednesday to prevent causing the police "a lot of hassle".

American Pie actor Chris Klein pleaded no contest to drink-driving following and will serve four years probation.

Nearly 20 people die as a suicide bomber rams an explosives laden pickup truck into a police station in north-west Pakistan.

Roger Federer takes on Jurgen Melzer in the US Open night session after Caroline Wozniacki sees off Maria Sharapova.

Five men, including two ex-councillors, are jailed over a failed postal vote scam in Bradford during the 2005 general election.

A Flintshire mother calls for tougher sentences for so-called "one-punch killers" after her son's attacker was jailed for 40 months for manslaughter.

Former member of British rock group ELO, Mike Edwards, is killed in a freak accident when a hay bale rolls on to a Devon road and crushes his van.

Contemporary artwork owned by model Jerry Hall are expected to fetch more than £1.5 million when they are sold in October at Sotheby's in London.

England batsman Kevin Pietersen is given an undisclosed fine by the ECB over his Twitter tirade.