Pakistan rocked by fresh claims - A fourth Pakistan cricketer is being investigated by cricket's governing body, claims the News of the World. ** Cell assault sergeant facing sack - A police officer who was caught on CCTV injuring a woman by throwing her into a cell faces being dismissed. ** Archbishop defends Pope price tag - The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales says taxpayers should help fund the Pope's visit because it is an official state event. ** Rooney set to travel with England - Wayne Rooney is still expected to travel to Switzerland for England's Euro 2012 qualifier despite allegations about his private life. ** Heavy rains devastate Guatemala - A state of emergency is declared in Guatemala where heavy rain has caused widespread flooding and landslides, killing at least 18 people. ** Iran stoning woman 'to be lashed' - An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery now faces being whipped for indecency, her son says. ** BP well 'poses no further risk' - The official in charge of cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill says the well which caused the damage is no longer a risk to the environment. ** Ex-army head attacks Labour PMs - Former head of the Army Gen Sir Richard Dannatt accuses Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of letting down British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. ** Briton killed in NZ crash named - The Foreign Office confirms that 24-year-old Briton Brad Coker was among nine killed in a light aircraft crash in New Zealand. ** Bid to identify golf course body - Officers are trying to establish the identity of a badly-burnt body discovered by players on a golf course near Brighton. ** Seven children have E. coli bug - Seven children in County Armagh have been infected with E. coli 0157, the Public Health Agency has confirmed. ** Craigslist ends adult service ads - Online marketplace Craigslist closes its US adult services listing following pressure from attorneys general and advocacy groups. ** Danish rocket enthusiasts to launch dummy into sky - A group of Danish rocket enthusiasts are set to launch a dummy 30km into the sky as part of their quest to develop a private launch system. ** Collingwood remains fully focused - England captain Paul Collingwood says his side are "100% prepared" for Sunday's first Twenty20 international against Pakistan in Cardiff. ** Federer sails through in New York - Five-time champion Roger Federer cruises into the fourth round of the US Open with a straight sets win over Paul-Henri Mathieu. ** Hargreaves fails to make Euro cut - Injury-hit midfielder Owen Hargreaves has been left out of Manchester United's Champions League squad. ** Harrington misses cut in Boston - Ireland's Padraig Harrington says he will add a European tour event to his schedule after missing the cut at the Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston. ** Dawson facing spell on sidelines - England and Tottenham defender Michael Dawson will miss the game with Switzerland after being ruled out for at least six weeks. ** Two killed as aeroplanes collide - Two people are killed when their plane crashes to the ground after a collision with another aircraft on the Isle of Wight. ** Pensioner 'stabbed in the heart' - An elderly man found dead at a house in Surrey had received a fatal stab wound to the heart, post-mortem tests reveal. ** Scotland faces £3.7bn budget cuts - Scotland faces nearly £4bn of cuts over the next four years, Finance Secretary John Swinney is warning. ** Rider airlifted at horse trials - Scottish event rider Nicola Malcolm is airlifted to hospital after falling from her horse during the Burghley Horse Trials. ** Four held over Blair egg pelting - Four men are arrested after eggs and shoes are thrown at former Prime Minister Tony Blair at a book signing in Dublin. ** Police appeal in murder inquiry - Police appeal for information about the murder of Armagh man Kevin Fletcher, found dead in his flat on Friday. ** Village £550,000 broadband quote - Villagers told by BT it will cost £550,000 for a broadband connection receive an estimate from another company of £50,000. ** More cuts in councillors proposed - More plans to reduce the number of councillors in Wales are put forward to create what ministers say would be greater fairness for voters. ** Mozambique police fire at rioters - Police in Mozambique's capital fire rubber bullets on the third day of riots, as the violence spreads to the central city of Chimoio. ** UN calls special food price talks - The United Nations' food agency calls a special meeting of policy makers to discuss the recent rapid rises in food prices. ** New Zealand assesses quake damage - Officials assess the damage caused by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, as aftershocks continue. ** South Korea FM offers to resign - The South Korean Foreign Minister, Yu Myung-hwan, offers to resign after it was revealed that his daughter was offered a job in his ministry. ** Car bomb kills Russian soldiers - A suicide car bombing at a military base in the southern Russian region of Dagestan kills five soldiers and wounds about 40 others. ** Protests over French Roma policy - Thousands attend rallies in Paris and other French cities to protest at the government's policy of deporting Roma people. ** Crash survivors back Chile miners - Survivors of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes arrive at the San Jose mine to support the 33 men trapped underground. ** Six die in Barbados shop attack - Armed robbers in Barbados have set fire to a clothing shop in the capital, Bridgetown, killing six people who were inside. ** One dead in Israeli raids on Gaza - Israel carries out three bombing raids on the Gaza Strip, killing one man and injuring another. ** Bahrain charging Shia activists - Prosecutors in Bahrain accuse 23 Shia activists of forming a "terrorist network" aiming to overthrow the Gulf state's Sunni-dominated government. ** Long lines at troubled Kabul Bank - Afghans have continued to withdraw money from the country's largest bank, Kabul Bank, over fears it may collapse. ** Karzai sets up Taliban talks body - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has formed a committee to seek peace talks with the Taliban, his office says. ** Tropical storm Earl hits Canada - Tropical Storm Earl reaches Nova Scotia, on the eastern Canadian coast, with hundreds of thousands of people experiencing power cuts. ** US sees 54,000 jobs go in August - The US economy shed another 54,000 jobs in August, the third month in a row that jobs have been lost, official figures show. ** Six million facing new tax bills - HM Revenue and Customs says some 1.4 million people each owe about £1,500 in tax, while 4.3 million will get an average rebate of £418. ** Rovers takeover man left UK debts - The Indian businessman hoping to buy Blackburn Rovers, Ahsan Ali Syed, left a trail of debt from his time in the UK, 5 live Investigates reveals. ** Petrobras files $65bn share offer - The Brazilian state oil company, Petrobras, unveils plans to sell up to $64.5bn of new stock, in one of the world's largest share offers. ** Balls seeks phone hack statement - Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls says the home secretary should make a statement about claims of phone tapping by the News of the World. ** Tory defects over schools scheme - A Tory councillor defects to Labour over cuts to the government's schools building programme, saying she was "ashamed to be a Conservative". ** Blair in 'radical Islam' warning - Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the BBC that radical Islam is the greatest threat facing the world. ** Reading Arabic 'hard for brain' - Israeli scientists believe they have identified why Arabic is particularly hard to learn to read. ** 'No evidence' implants are toxic - Tests on a type of breast implant filled with an unapproved gel have shown no evidence they are unsafe, UK experts say. ** Compost sparks Legionnaire's fear - Gardeners are being warned about the risk of Legionnaire's disease from compost after a pensioner developed the disease after handling compost. ** Men in short supply in primaries - One in four state primary schools in England has no male teacher, statistics show. ** Music tuition falling, poll says - Fewer children are learning to play a musical instrument than in their parents' generation, a survey suggests. ** School lottery 'failed in aim' - England's first city-wide lottery system aimed at solving the problem of allocating places at over-subscribed schools failed to give poorer children equal access to top schools, academics say. ** PS3 hack escapes court challenge - Sony has won a permanent ban in Australia of a hack for its PS3, but the code behind it has been released for free on the web. ** Memristor revolution backed by HP - A potentially revolutionary circuit component, once a laboratory curiosity, is to be mass-produced for the first time. ** Global broadband divide revealed - The global disparity in access to broadband around the world and the cost of a connection is revealed by UN figures. ** Hubble re-shoots 1987 star blast - The Hubble space telescope returns to view one of its favourite subjects - a giant stellar explosion first seen from Earth in 1987. ** Plans for solar 'close encounter' - Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere. ** Wolves fail to halt aspen decline - The re-introduction of wolves to a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped. ** DJs unite for Love Parade track - Three of the world's most successful club DJs join forces to pay tribute to those who died at the Love Parade festival in Germany in July. ** Funeral for festival death star - The funeral is held of singer Charles Haddon from Northamptonshire who died in a fall in Belgium. ** Sarah Kennedy leaves BBC Radio 2 - Veteran broadcaster Sarah Kennedy is leaving BBC Radio 2's Dawn Patrol show - 34 years after joining the station ** Eddie who? - Comic Eddie Kadi can command vast crowds at his live shows. Why has he attracted so little mainstream attention? ** Don't let the bed bugs bite - The world is on the verge of a bed-bug pandemic, according to a report - how did the tiny biting insects come to pose such a threat? ** Autobiographies of the rich and famous - Tony Blair's memoirs has become the fastest selling autobiography in Britain. But what are the biggest overall sellers? ** Could adverts appear on the Colosseum? - The Italian government is inviting private companies to sponsor the Colosseum to help fund repairs. ** Trapped miners speak to families - The group of miners in Chile trapped underground for a month have been talking to their families on a video link. ** Imran Khan on corruption in cricket - The former Pakistan cricket captain, Imran Khan, has said that if players are found guilty of spot fixing, they should not be given a life ban, which some officials are demanding. ** Blair pelted with eggs in Dublin - Eggs and shoes have been thrown by anti-war protestors at former Prime Minister Tony Blair as he arrived at a book signing in Dublin. ** Ian McEwan: Booker winner 'not my best' - Author Ian McEwan talks to Matt Stadlen about the exercise of writing, the importance of long, moody walks, the "thinginess" of James Joyce and getting to grips with quantum mechanics. ** Making music from children's old toys - The Modified Toy Orchestra is a band made up of five musicians - and 48 tweaked toy instruments. ** The military 'junk' left in Iraq - Thousands of tonnes of US military equipment have been moved out of Iraq but plenty has been left behind - and not just for the troops who remain there. ** 'Worst earthquake I have ever felt' - A 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes New Zealand's South Island, causing widespread minor damage and power cuts. ** Missing in Mexico - Mystery of young women disappearing in Ciudad Juarez ** Crumble in the jungle - Ali-Foreman boxing match venue now in state of decay ** Remember when... - How much can you trust the human memory? ** Medieval munchies - How an ancient diet could aid healthy eating ** Cottage country - Escaping the hustle and bustle of city life in Ontario ** Reporter's dilemma - Should a journalist bear witness, or interfere to help save a life? ** Newspaper review - Phone hack claims in some papers **

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