China shuts down mosques in riot city

Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang regional capital of Urumqi are told to pray at home because of the 'complicated situation'

Sarah Brown says 'no thanks' to veal at G8 - twice

Prime Minister's wife tells Twitter that she declined one of Italy's favourites meats because, 'I feel very strongly about it'

2,000 protest over Iran election in London

As cameras roll at Iranian Embassy, demonstrators fear footage will be used to intimidate them if they return to Iran

Taleban bombs take toll on British troops

Increasingly sophisticated makeshift devices have led to more casualties among the 3,000 British troops in Helmand

Roll of honour: British troops killed in Afghanistan

Britain's military role in Afghanistan continues to take a terrible toll. This is a list of personnel who have died to date

Soldiers use patience to defeat Taleban

Nato forces in Afghanistan facing firefights and roadside bombs are measuring their response to avoid alienating civilians

Cemetery staff charged with desecrating graves

Workers at Burr Oak Cemetery, south of Chicago, dug up 300 bodies because they wanted to resell the funeral plots, police said

How the latest body count has kept growing

The number of British troops who have lost their lives in Afghanistan now stands at 184. These are the most recent victims

Gossip from the G8: Pledges of help and not a whiff of a showgirl

Carla is declared a party pooper, Gaddafi camps out and Obama and Berlusconi bond without so much as a showgirl in sight

Mugabe faces questions from white farmers

Head of farmers’ union demands to know why President has not paid compensation and is denying white Zimbabweans land rights

Han Chinese family beheaded and burnt

The brother of a woman whose family were murdered in riots searches mortuaries and hospital wards for his missing relative

Police investigate torture claims against UK agents

Binyam Mohamed, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, alleges that MI5 officers knew about the way he was interrogated

ANALYSIS: rising toll recalls Falklands

The attrition rate for British troops in Afghanistan has recalled the worst moments of the Falklands conflict in 1982

Brown defends Afghanistan mission as deaths mount

The Prime Minister insisted that the Afghan campaign was making Britain safer as the MoD confirmed that two more British soldiers had died

G8 boosts farm aid to $20bn in radical shift

World leaders surpassed expectations and pledged $5bn more than predicted to help poor nations to move away from direct food aid

Libya in from cold as Brown asks Gaddafi for help

Prime Minister talked to Libyan leader for 40 minutes at G8 summit and asked for his intervention in child abduction case

Two more British soldiers killed fighting Taleban

UK death toll hits nine in nine days - the most sustained loss of life in either Afghan or Iraqi campaigns