Rory McIlroy is closing in on a maiden major title with an eight-shot lead over YE Yang going into the final round of the US Open.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls urges the unions not to fall into the government's "trap" by striking over plans to reform public sector pensions.

Absent fathers should be "stigmatised" by society in the same way drink-drivers are, Prime Minister David Cameron says.

Ringo Starr performs in Liverpool for the first time since he sparked anger by saying he did not miss his home city.

Society Rock produces an upset to win Saturday's feature race at Ascot - the Golden Jubilee Stakes.

At least two people die as an apparent Nato air strike hits a three-storey house in a residential area of the Libyan capital Tripoli.

Clarence Clemons - the saxophonist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band - dies aged 69 in a Florida hospital a week after suffering a stroke.

A 46-year-old competitor dies during the Great North Swim in Cumbria.