Stoke reveal to the BBC that they have held talks with a view to signing Aston Villa striker John Carew.

Alan Johnson resigns from Labour leader Ed Miliband's frontbench team for "personal reasons" - with Ed Balls taking over as shadow chancellor.

A woman in California has spoken for the first time in 11 years after a pioneering voice box transplant.

Blackburn manager Steve Kean signs a new deal that will keep him at the club until 2013.

Dozens of people gather at a cash machine in Dundee after reports it was paying out extra money to customers.

Tunisia's new interim government says it will recognise all banned political groups and grant an amnesty to all political prisoners.

Sunderland manager Steve Bruce criticises Aston Villa boss Gerard Houllier in the wake of Darren Bent's £24m move to the Midlands club.

Former spy chief Sir Richard Dearlove tells the Iraq inquiry that many people were "very unhappy" about the UK's strategy in the run-up to the war.