Comedian Russell Brand tells MPs that taking drugs should not be seen as a "criminal or judicial matter" but he does not favour complete legalisation.

US Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson testifies at the opening of the trial in Chicago of the man accused of shooting three members of her family in 2008.

Rangers owner Craig Whyte is banned for life by the Scottish Football Association, which also hands the club a 12-month transfer embargo.

At least 4,000 people are taking part later in the biggest security exercise ahead of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Would-be shoe bomber Saajid Badat becomes the first UK terror convict to testify at an al-Qaeda operative trial in the US.

A university in England is setting up the world's first research centre to look at tourism to places of disaster and violence.

The pharmaceutical company Novartis is challenging the use of a cheaper alternative to its drug Lucentis for a common cause of loss of vision.

A London council is accused of beginning the "social cleansing" of the capital by asking a Stoke landlord to take up to 500 families on housing benefit.