Suicide bomber kills 25 at Pakistan sports event

Car bomber drives onto field during volleyball tournament in northwest Pakistan in possible reprisal attack

Brown promises to beef up UK airport security

PM says he ordered immediate review after 'wake-up call' of failed Christmas Day airline bomb attack

UK bomb disposal expert killed in Afghanistan

Soldier's death after IED blast brings UK casualties last year to 108 - the worst year since for Armed Forces since Falklands conflict

Shivering London turns a bright eye to 2010

More than 200,000 people gathered on the banks of the Thames and up to 80,000 joined the Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh

Karzai demands US handover gunmen

Call reflects the growing assertiveness of a government that precariously held its position after fraudriddled elections

Claim and counterclaim over Iran involvement

Did an elite arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps that specialises in foreign operations abduct the British hostages?

The 2010 quiz

2009 has been and gone. Test your knowledge on this year's forthcoming events, on subjects ranging from economics to fashion

ANALYSIS: killer from Kosovo left in the cold

The latest mass shooting in Finland was the work of a deranged individual but also the result of social exclusion

AT&T drops Tiger Woods sponsorship

The US mobile phone giant joined other major sponsors in dropping or cutting back their association with the shamed sports star

Iran accused over kidnap as picture released

Former US commander in Iraq General Petraeus says he is 'certain' Peter Moore was held captive on Iranian territory

Australia steals Kiwi New Year thunder

Sydney started celebrations three hours early with fireworks display for children - at same time as main Auckland show

Rush Limbaugh in hospital after chest pains

Right-wing host with America's biggest talk-radio audience taken to hospital in ambulance while holidaying in Hawaii

Petraeus 'certain' UK hostage was held in Iran

Claim by former US commander comes amid reports that Revolutionary Guard was involved in Peter Moore kidnap

First elected leader of Indonesia dies aged 69

Abdurrahman Wahid was a champion of tolerant Islam who was his country's first elected leader after Suharto dictatorship

Explorer's son hurt in plane crash

Famed explorer Mick Leahy's son Richard badly hurt after Cessna he was piloting crashed in Papua New Guinea, killing six

Four foreigners face execution in China

Group arrested over large heroin seizure told they 'face the highest penalty' days after Briton Akmal Shaikh executed

Peter Jackson knighted in NZ honours list

Oscar-winning director knighted in first honours list since NZ reinstated title as former PM Helen Clark wins highest honour

Slumdog child star’s slum house demolished

Mumbai officials have pulled down the shanty home of Rubina Ali Qureshi, who starred in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire

Briton freed after US hands over Iraq insurgent

Peter Moore, who was held hostage in Iraq for 946 days, is released by an extremist Shia group allied to Iran

ANALYSIS: Yemen the front line in conflict for US

The fragile Government is being given the quiet but rapidly increasing support of US trainers, intelligence and hardware