David Beckham undergoes successful surgery on his Achilles injury as he comes to terms with missing out on the World Cup.

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World Cup dream ends for Beckham

A man is charged with murdering a mother-of-three who went missing on a night out in Dundee, police say.

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Murder charge over woman’s death

Hull chairman Adam Pearson says Alan Curbishley is not in the running to become the Tigers’ new manager.

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Hull reject link with Curbishley

British Airways has announced contingency plans to fly 60% of its customers during the first planned strike by cabin crew.

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BA hopes to fly 60% during strike

A priest convicted of sexually abusing children — and whose subsequent move to another location was approved by the pope when he was a cardinal — is suspended.

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Pope’s ex-diocese suspends sex-abuse priest

Actress Kate Winslet and her film director husband Sam Mendes have split up, their lawyers announce.

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Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes split

The world’s shortest man, He Pingping, who was just 74.6cm tall, has died at the age of 21, Guinness World Records says.

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Tributes paid as world’s shortest man dies aged 22

Saying it plans to lease aircraft and provide replacement workers, British Airways on Monday unveiled an ambitious contingency plan in preparation for the first of two strikes by the union members representing the airline’s cabin crews.

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BA to lease planes during strike

The yearlong fight over health care reached a fever pitch Monday as President Obama took his call for change to the political swing state of Ohio, slamming insurance companies and repeating his call for a final congressional vote on his sweeping reform plan.

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Obama demands health care reform

Burma and North Korea reject UN condemnation of human rights abuses at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

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Burma and N Korea slam UN reports

Where does the BA strike leave Gordon Brown?

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Turbulent times

In a bid to end what it calls illegal riots, the Israeli military will prohibit outsider access to areas in two occupied West Bank villages one day a week, according to a statement explaining the move.

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Israel moves to end West Bank protests

Tributes are paid to the Labour MP Ashok Kumar, who has been found dead in his home in Middlesbrough, aged 53.

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Tributes paid to Labour MP Kumar

A “misguided fantasist” is jailed for two years for building makeshift bombs in his bedroom in Lancashire.

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Prison for ‘fantasist’ bomb maker

Georgians question hoax broadcast of Russian invasion

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Un-reality TV