White House partycrashers: how they did it

UK's foremost gatecrasher assesses technique of TV wannabes who crashed Barack Obama's first state dinner

Berlusconi wife seeks €43m a year divorce deal

Italian Prime Minister contests claim as exorbitant after Veronica Lario demands three and a half million euros a month

Ex MI6 chief attacks Government on Afghanistan

Sir Richard Dearlove said ministers failed to provide enough money for the war and to explain why it was necessary

Philippines massacre suspect arrested

Andal Apatuan Jr was flown to Manila for questioning over the massacre of 57 people including relatives of a rival politician

TV wannabes gatecrash White House state dinner

Michaele and Tareq Salahi evaded security checks to mingle with VIP guests at state dinner for Indian PM Manmohar Singh

New Zealand tourism moves into the iceberg age

NZ helicopter companies are preparing to take tourists out to see the icebergs floating in the southern Pacific - for £260

Barghouti is price of freedom for Schalit

Palestinian politician jailed for murder is top of list of prisoners that Hamas wants in exchange for Israeli soldier

Hero's welcome for Ahmadinejad in Venezuela

President Chavez said Venezuela and Iran would be allied 'until the end' as Iranian president bolstered his powerbase

Feral camels terrorise Outback community

A remote community in central Australia is under siege from 6,000 wild camels which have invaded the town in search of water

Mayor is prime suspect in Philippines massacre

A third mass grave is uncovered in the Philippines, bringing the number killed in the country’s worst political massacre to 57

Polanksi on bail as Swiss consider extradition

Switzerland's top criminal court grants request by director, facing child sex charges, to be released on £2.7m bail

Settlement freeze excludes East Jerusalem

Ten-month moratorium on new Jewish homes in occupied West Bank welcomed by Washington but rejected by the Palestinans

I was just a cog, says 'Comrade Duch'

Pol Pot's former prison chief could serve 40 years for 'unrelenting brutality' at S-21 jail where thousands of Cambodians died

Fears remain over security in Mumbai

There is little confidence in the authorities' ability to prevent another atrocity by the Lashkar-e-Taiba terror group

'They owned you and they made sure you knew it'

John Kelly was just 13 years old when he was committed in 1963 to Daingean Reformatory School in County Offaly

The robots really are taking over

If Japanese engineers have their way, androids could replace nurses

Putin's tiger is missing, despite satellite collar

Endangered animal's movements were being tracked. Environmentalists say collar could have fallen off or poachers struck