BA cabin crew will go on strike for three days from 20 March and for four days from 27 March in a dispute over pay and staff levels.

Twin suicide bomb attacks on the Pakistani city of Lahore kill 45 people, before other, smaller blasts cause confusion.

The British National Party is forced to rewrite its membership rules again after a court rules them discriminatory.

The mother of a girl who starved to death is sentenced to 15 years and her stepfather jailed indefinitely.

Labour peer Baroness Uddin says she is "relieved" after being told she will not be prosecuted over her expenses.

Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown criticise the US for "protectionism" over an aerospace deal after talks in London.

A long-serving Conservative MEP, expelled in a row over the party's new allies in Europe, has joined the Liberal Democrats.

Oil demand in China rose by an "astonishing" 28% in January compared with a year ago, the International Energy Agency says.