Manchester City host Villarreal and Manchester United play SC Otelul Galati in the Champions League and there is a full Championship programme on a busy night of football domestically and in Europe.

A malaria vaccine shows promising results in a clinical trial in Africa.

Influential Manchester rock band The Stone Roses announce the end of a 15-year split to stage a world tour and record new material.

A suicide car bomb kills five civilians in Somalia's capital as Kenyan ministers hold talks nearby, two days after Kenyan troops enter southern Somalia.

Bank of England governor Mervyn King calls on China to import more to help solve global financial problems.

Philip Hammond has used his first speech as defence secretary in the Commons to tell MPs that progress made in Afghanistan was not "irreversible".

A truck containing $200,000 worth of audio equipment used by US President Barack Obama is stolen in Virginia, US media report.

Julian Barnes wins the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending, having missed out on three previous occasions.