Former MP Denis MacShane is to be charged with false accounting over parliamentary expenses claims, the Crown Prosecution Service says.

A Moscow court finds late Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky guilty of tax fraud in a case which has strained US-Russian ties.

The MPs' expenses watchdog will recommend a pay rise for MPs to £74,000 but will say there should be cuts to other allowances, the BBC's political editor learns.

The government is considering retaining the Faslane naval base as sovereign UK territory if there is a yes vote in the Scottish independence referendum.

A kitten - thought to be just four weeks old - is found on a London Underground train.

Downing Street says designating the Faslane nuclear submarine base as sovereign British territory in the event of a yes to independence is "not credible".

Britain's rowers will compete in their last big event before the World Championships when the Lucerne World Cup starts on Friday.

The sentence given to BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall over his convictions for sexual abuse will be reviewed following complaints it was too lenient.