A viscount's son is jailed for defrauding Tesco out of £355,000 to repay debts incurred by a loss-making music festival at the family seat.

The world needs cyber war "rules of engagement" to cope with potentially devastating cyber weapons, Russian and US experts are to say.

A former Labour MP accused of faking expenses asked a stationery company to confirm he had paid for orders when he never did so, a court hears.

French actress Maria Schneider, best known for playing Marlon Brando's lover in Last Tango in Paris, dies aged 58 after a long illness.

Mike Tindall insists he will not change his laid-back approach ahead of his first match as stand-in captain when England take on Wales on Friday.

Chelsea's David Luiz has told of his relief that he will be lining up in the same side as Fernando Torres, who played a key role in Liverpool's thrashing of Luiz's former club Benfica in April.

Egypt's new Vice-President, Omar Suleiman, appeals for time to implement political reforms as clashes continue in central Cairo.

The scale of the 2010 drought in the Amazon raises new fears among scientists about the region's capacity to continue absorbing CO2 emissions.