Joey O'Brien scores his first Premier League goal as West Ham battle back to earn a point against Stoke.

The credit ratings agency Moody's downgrades French debt and maintains the negative outlook, meaning its rating could be cut again.

The French conservative UMP party chooses Jean-Francois Cope, an ally of ex-president Sarkozy, as its next leader after a tight election.

QPR boss Mark Hughes remains in charge of the Premier League strugglers following a two-hour meeting with the club's chief executive.

The Royal Variety Performance marks its 100th anniversary with a star-studded show in front of the Queen at London's Royal Albert Hall.

A man who locked a fake bomb around the neck of a teenage girl in an apparent extortion attempt in Sydney is jailed for 13-and-a-half years.

David Cameron says ministers will crack down on "time-wasting" caused by the "massive growth industry" of legal challenges to government policy.

Every prisoner in England and Wales should be given a mentor to help them keep away from crime on their release, the Justice Secretary is to say.