Ghana's incumbent President John Mahama has won Friday's election, officials say, but the opposition says the poll was fraudulent.

Fifteen new acts are named on the BBC Sound of 2013 list, which aims to highlight the most promising musicians to look out for in the year ahead.

A committee of MPs urges ministers to closely consider a system of decriminalising drugs adopted in Portugal, saying the UK must rethink large parts of its drugs policy.

Evidence suggesting another man was at Lord Lucan's house at the time of the family nanny's murder, is uncovered by the BBC.

The Ministry of Defence commissions a new attack submarine, HMS Audacious, in a contract worth £1.2bn and which will safeguard 3,000 jobs.

Clinical networks of doctors and nurses which oversee the care of cancer, heart and stroke patients have had their budgets and staff cut, figures show.

President Morsi orders Egypt's military to maintain security and protect state institutions as tensions rise in the run-up to a referendum on the constitution.

Labour is set to publish details of how it would like to see the press regulated in the wake of Lord Justice Leveson's press standards report.