EU leaders have opted for little-known compromise candidate Belgian Premier Herman Van Rompuy to become the bloc's first full-time president, diplomats have said.Read
Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman faces prosecution for her involvement in a car smash in which she was allegedly using her mobile phone, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.Read
A leading lawyer has advised Irish football chiefs to issue a writ against Fifa for negligence after a blatant handball helped put France into the World Cup finals.Read
A former backer of X Factor star Danyl Johnson's old band Upfrunt pocketed more than £700,000 from unwary friends and others with a "crooked" investment scam, a court has been told.Read
Gordon Brown has offered an olive branch to X Factor's Jedward, insisting the pair are "very good" at some things despite previously criticising their singing.Read
The mother of Scarlett Keeling, the British teenager whose body was found on a beach in Goa, has been charged with falsely claiming more than £50,000 in income support.Read
Tory leader David Cameron has claimed the Government's legislative programme is "unravelling" after ministers were forced to concede they could introduce laws to complete the clean-up of MPs' expenses.Read
Gordon Brown offered an olive branch to X Factor's "Jedward", insisting they were "very good" at some things after publicly criticising their singing.Read
