Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have been sentenced to jail in Italy for one year and eight months for tax evasion

Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana are sentenced to jail in Italy for tax evasion but have appealed the verdict.

England cruise into the final of the Champions Trophy with a convincing seven-wicket victory over South Africa at The Oval.

Nine drug companies are fined for delaying cheaper generic drugs coming to market.

A hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay detainee tells of the 'ordeal' of force-feeding, as doctors call for inmates to get independent medical care.

One in nine bridges in the US - more than 66,000 in total - are structurally deficient, a number likely to grow amid US budget woes, a report finds.

Flooding in India is continuing to disrupt daily life on a massive scale.

Yohan Blake will not run the 200m at the World Championships after pulling out of the Jamaican national championships.

The first cycling tour of the Democratic Republic of Congo starts, but cyclists will not be riding to the volatile east of the vast country.

Slim Whitman, the American country singer known for his yodelling abilities has died at the age of 89.

A nine-year-old girl is killed in unprovoked mortar shelling by Indian troops, officials in Pakistani-administered Kashmir say.

Four in 10 indigenous Canadian children live in poverty, more than twice the national rate, finds a study that urges an increase in social services.

A US fugitive on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list for the alleged sexual exploitation of children is arrested at a resort in Mexico.

High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope have been found in groundwater at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator says.

The IMF says Spain has made strong progress on its economy, but the outlook remains "difficult" and more action is needed to boost job creation.

West Ham United complete the signing of England striker Andy Carroll from Liverpool in a club record £15m deal.

The Afghan government will not take part in peace talks with the Taliban unless the process is "Afghan-led", President Hamid Karzai announces.

Possible models for intervention as West mulls action in Syria

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski apologises for a political appointment that plunged his three-week-old government into crisis.

Gunmen on motorbikes kill 48 people in an attack on a remote village in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state, an official says.