| _______________ |  | Queiroz gets six-month suspension | | Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz is suspended for six months after it is ruled that he disrupted an anti-doping test ahead of the World Cup. |
| _______________ | | Angry Roddick falls to Tipsarevic | | Ninth seed Andy Roddick sees his hopes of claiming a second US Open title end with a second-round defeat by Janko Tipsarevic in New York. |
| _______________ | | Pakistan trio out of England tour | | The three Pakistan cricketers accused of spot-fixing will miss the rest of their tour of England, according to team manager Yawar Saeed. |
| _______________ | | What next for BP? | | Tony Hayward will stand down as chief executive of BP. What impact will this have on the company? |
| _______________ | | Live - Two years to London 2012 | | Olympic stars, officials and volunteers take part in a day of events to mark two years to the start of the Games in London. |
| _______________ | | PM condemns sympathy for Moat | | Prime Minister David Cameron tells the House of Commons there should be no sympathy for gunman Raoul Moat. |
| _______________ | | Major arrests promised over riots | | Police deploy a water cannon after petrol bombs and other missiles are thrown on a third night of violence in Belfast. |
| _______________ | | Major manhunt for Afghan soldier | | A manhunt is under way in Helmand province for the rogue Afghan soldier who killed three members of the Royal Gurkha Rifles. |
| _______________ | | Nato's Afghan death toll mounts | | Five more US soldiers are killed in two separate attacks in Afghanistan, taking Nato's death toll to 12 over 24 hours. |
| _______________ | | Credit Suisse offices are raided | | German prosecutors have raided 13 branches of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse in connection with a probe into tax fraud. |
| _______________ | | French row over Bastille parade | | France stages its annual Bastille Day parade, amid criticism of the presence of some African leaders in Paris. |
| _______________ | | Hassan killer 'goes missing' | | The sister of Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker murdered in Iraq, claims the man found guilty of her murder has gone missing. |
| _______________ | | Venezuela hands over 'drug boss' | | Venezuela hands over Colombian Carlos Alberto Renteria to US authorities who accuse him of being a major drug cartel leader. |
| _______________ | | Hague calls for closer China ties | | UK Foreign Secretary William Hague tells his Chinese counterpart that he wants to build a close working relationship. |
| _______________ | | 'Killer mushroom' found in China | | A tiny mushroom little know to scientists is to blame for more than 400 sudden deaths in Yunnan province, experts say. |
| _______________ | | France to help Africa veterans | | France is to raise pensions for its African war veterans to the same level as those of their French comrades, Nicolas Sarkozy says. |
| _______________ | | Mobile firms failing on coverage | | The Communications Consumer Panel calls for consistent guidelines on cancelling contracts in poor mobile coverage areas. |
| _______________ | | Gay teenage site in privacy fears | | A row erupts in the US over the ownership of a gay teenage database of one million people after its publishers went bankrupt. |
| _______________ | | Bing gains market share in search | | Twelve months after launch, search engine Bing has cornered more than 12% of the search engine market, says report. |
| _______________ | | Rio resumes Australia investment | | Mining giant Rio Tinto invests $200m in expanding iron ore operations in Western Australia after a tax row is settled. |
| _______________ | | India reeling as Murali closes in | | India close day four of the first Test in Galle 63 behind Sri Lanka at 181-5 in their follow-on as Muttiah Muralitharan moves to 798 wickets. |
| _______________ | | Australia in Jakarta asylum talks | | The Australian and Indonesia foreign ministers will talk in Jakarta about plans for a regional refugee processing centre. | |
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