UK - The death of Government scientist David Kelly returned to haunt Labour today as a group of doctors announced that they were mounting a legal challenge to overturn the finding of suicide. Dr Kelly's body was found six years ago this week in woods close to his Oxfordshire home, shortly after he was exposed as the source of a BBC news report questioning the grounds for war in Iraq.
UK - The NHS is telling school pupils they have a 'right' to an enjoyable sex life and that it is good for their health. A Health Service leaflet says experts concentrate too much on the need for safe sex and loving relationships, and not enough on the pleasure it can bring.
EUROPE - EU Internal Markets Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has admitted that 95% of EU states would have voted No if they held a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
EUROPE - Worries over the European banking sector have risen to their highest level since March and could put increased pressure on the euro according to the world's leading custodian bank.
UK - The NHS is preparing to vaccinate the entire population against swine flu after the disease claimed the life of its first healthy British patient. A new vaccine is expected to arrive in Britain in the next few weeks and could be fast-tracked through regulatory approval in five days.
UK - A leading Church of England Bishop has warned that Britain has become a 'cold place' for Christians because of a raft of controversial equality laws.
GHANA - Barack Obama has delivered the most challenging speech by a US leader in Africa for decades by castigating the continent's leadership for creating a culture of "brutality and bribery". Adopting a tone his white predecessors never dared employ, the US President told Africa it could no longer blame the West for all its woes.
UK - The Archbishop of Canterbury faces a critical week in his bid to prevent the Anglican Communion from splitting over the issue of homosexuality. Dr Rowan Williams flew to America last week ahead of moves by church leaders in the US to introduce rites for same-sex unions and to promote more gay bishops.
UK - Yesterday came the truly tragic news that eight of our young soldiers had been killed in a single Taliban ambush. We had already lost seven men in as many days. The total of British dead in Afghanistan since Tony Blair took Britain into this misconceived adventure in November 2001 alongside George W Bush now stands at 184.
UK - Last month, one of Britain's most senior Family Court judges described family breakdown as a national tragedy and argued marriage should be promoted by the Government to help stop 'social anarchy'.
UK - City banks are preparing to lavish record bonuses on staff less than a year after bringing the world economy to the brink of meltdown. Many high-flying traders and dealmakers are looking forward to 'mindblowing' payouts on a par with the rewards handed out at the height of the banking boom in 2007
US/UK - As the Telegraph has reported, President Obama has called for a 30-nation summit in Washington next March to discuss nuclear non-proliferation. This follows a reckless preliminary agreement between Obama and Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow to cut America's nuclear stockpile and delivery systems by up to a third, a deal which is stunningly good for the Russians but hugely damaging for America's interests.
NEW YORK - Regulators have shuttered Bank of Wyoming, marking the 53rd failure this year of a federally insured bank.
OXFORD, UK - Former Vice President Al Gore declared that the Congressional climate bill will help bring about "global governance.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI stressed the church's opposition to abortion and stem cell research in his first meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday, pressing the Vatican's case with the US leader who is already under fire on those issues from some conservative Catholics and bishops back home.