More than 70 firefighters are tackling a major blaze at a scrapyard on Tyneside.

Newly-crowned WBO light-heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly trades verbal insults with opponent Tony Bellew ahead of Saturday's fight.

Danish director Lars Von Trier "accepts" his ban from the Cannes Film Festival following his claims during a press conference that he sympathised with Hitler.

Lee Westwood and Luke Donald both record comfortable victories in their opening game at the World Match Play Championship in Spain.

The grandfather and mother of a four-year-old girl whose body was found in a suitcase in a Tel Aviv river are convicted of her murder.

More than 100 people take part in an oil spill exercise off Shetland, following concerns raised by the Gulf of Mexico spill last April.

Jenson Button is hopeful he and McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton will be able to compete with Red Bull in Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix.

Eoin Morgan stakes his claim to replace the retired Paul Collingwood with an unbeaten 156 for England Lions, while Samit Patel scores 101 not out.