Film star Jude Law told Britain's phone-hacking trial on Monday (January 27) that reporters and photographers used to hound him and that they even appeared at events he had organised secretly for his children.
IPCC to investigate allegations that grieving families were monitored by police in aftermath of tragedy.
Tunisia has its fourth PM in three years: a sign that it is still in need of greater stability.
In pictures: the world's largest seasonal migration of people.
Korea ordered culling of 1.4 million farm birds, including 640,000 already slaughtered, amid fears of nation-wide flu outbreak.
Banners with 'Allah is great, Jesus is the son of Allah' outside five churches sparks retaliation
Female manager and male executive jailed for six months for illicit liaison.
In pictures: protests against the cost of staging the World Cup in Brazil.
Infant mortality was high in Roman times and that explains why infant burials are common at Roman villas.
Nkosiyapha and Viginia Kunene face jail for causing death of son kept on strict religious diet.
An AFC Wimbledon fan may have had enough of the nail-biting drama during his side's match.
Solutions to the pollution problem in China include bicycles that purify air.
What you need to know about disgraced British expat banker Anton Casey.
Oscar-nominated actor in witness box on News of the World phone hacking allegations.
Blood stolen from tiny mountain church - and watchdog claims it could be linked to Satanism
Sunseeker putting finishing touches to its biggest-ever vessel for BBC F1 pundit.
Whitehall officials warn against possible terrorist attacks; Sochi mayor says homosexuality is not accepted.
Best photos of the day: 27 January 2014
Employee at infamous Polish concentration camp accused of using office computers to print anti-Semitic posters.
Genome of 7,000-year-old individual shows Mesolithic men had handsome looks.
Fugitive African warlord urges Ugandans to renew peace talks.
Woman, 28, raped by a friend and his two accomplices, and dumped on roadside.
James Grant sewed up his own leg after he was bitten by a shark in New Zealand.
Actor is third person who's played iconic advertising figure to have died as a result of smoking.
Latest UK, foreign and celebrity news and headlines on January 27, 2014.
A teenager from Sussex will remain on the sex offenders register indefinitely after committing 49 offences against teenage boys.
Pennsylvania police raid apartment of Russian teen looking for marijuana and find bomb in suitcase.
Xu Zhiyong sentenced to four years in jail for gathering a crowd to disturb public order.
Twenty one people are feared dead after a tourist boat sank off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
Measures restricting movement and communications of seven suspects lifted today.