Steve Shickles

Two boys who subjected a woman to a knife-point robbery and sex attack in a Belfast park have been ordered to serve six years.

An NHS doctor accused of masterminding car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow is a peaceful man, his barrister tells a court.

Newcastle United manager Joe Kinnear offers clues to his top transfer targets, with John Arne Riise a rumoured target, as he prepares to remain at the club into 2009.

A judge sentences an 19-year-old white South African to four life terms for shooting dead four black people.

A primary school teacher becomes the first in Scotland to admit charges of serious professional incompetence.

Israel increases security in the West Bank city of Hebron ahead of a Jewish pilgrimage there by an expected 20,000 people.

Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov will miss two games, while defender Wes Brown is out for up to five weeks.

A collaboration in the US is aiming to create artificial brain circuits that mimic the structure and workings of neurons.

Popular Burmese comedian and activist Zarganar is sentenced to 45 years in jail in the latest of a string of imprisonments.

Chancellor Alistair Darling is reportedly planning to force banks to lend to small firms in the pre-Budget report.