Taliban leader Mullah Omar says his fighters are on the verge of victory in Afghanistan and the Nato-led campaign has been "a complete failure".
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expresses concerns over the power of drug cartels and drug-related violence in Mexico.
David Cameron's father Ian dies in hospital in France shortly after the Prime Minister joined other members of his family at his bedside.
Sinn Fein says cuts "proposed or imposed by the British goverment must be challenged and resisted", following Peter Robinson's call for savings.
Google speeds up its internet search engine by launching a new product, Google Instant, that displays results as soon as users type in queries.
High doses of B vitamins may slow the rate of brain shrinkage in older people experiencing warning signs of Alzheimer's disease, a new study says.
US economic growth showed "widespread signs of deceleration" in August, says the Federal Reserve's Beige Book.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel defends the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose drawings of the Prophet Muhammad caused outrage in 2006.
BP's internal investigation into the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico finds that "a series of failures" was to blame
Labour MPs have rejected a move to allow the new party leader to choose who serves in the shadow cabinet.
President Obama urges Congress to approve billions in tax breaks and spending to boost the US economy ahead of November's elections.
Wall Street banking giant Goldman Sachs is fined £20m by the UK's financial watchdog, the BBC learns.
England batsman Kevin Pietersen hopes to play for South African franchise Kwa-Zulu Natal in two matches as a warm-up for this winter's Ashes.
Former Liverpool and Lyon boss Gerard Houllier is named as the new manager of Aston Villa.
A US pastor says he is not "backing down" from plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11, despite international condemnation.
Closing dozens of small embassies to save money would be a "false economy" as they do not cost much, says William Hague.
Palaeontologists uncover a new dinosaur with what may be the earliest evidence of feathers.
Gunmen in Iraq have killed an Iraqi TV journalist - the second in as many days - while four other people were killed in two attacks in the capital Baghdad.
A small US church says it will defy international condemnation and go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Koran on the 9/11 anniversary.
A man is found guilty of murdering his father, whose remains were found in concrete in a garden in Buckinghamshire.
