Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is leading with nearly 70% of the poll in his bid to secure re-election, according to early results issued by the interior ministry.Read
Iranians have packed polling stations from boutique-lined streets in north Tehran to rural conservative bastions for an election which has divided the nation.Read
Iranians packed polling stations from boutique-lined streets in north Tehran to conservative bastions in the countryside as the country went to the polls.Read
Hazel Blears has said she regrets the timing of her resignation from the Government, and denied it was designed to inflict maximum damage on Gordon Brown.Read
Police pressured Amanda Knox into implicating a former bar owner in the death of British student Meredith Kercher, the American murder suspect has told a court.Read
An American student accused of killing her British flatmate has taken the witness stand for the first time, telling the Italian court she occasionally used marijuana at the time of the 2007 slaying.Read
Three men have been given life sentences with minimum terms of 19 years for killing Ben Kinsella, the 16-year-old brother of actress Brooke Kinsella.Read
Thousands of postal workers in London are to stage a 24-hour strike in a dispute over jobs and services, threatening disruption to mail deliveries across the capital.Read
Campaigners have welcomed the publication of legislation enshrining a commitment to end child poverty by 2020, but warned that action had to start immediately.Read
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has been urged to explain how four Chinese detainees from Guantanamo Bay came to be released to a UK territory without Britain's knowledge.Read
A business leader has urged politicians to "get a grip" on long-term problems such as rising Government debt and increased levels of youth unemployment.Read
