Peru passes a law allowing foreign prisoners to serve out their sentences in their home countries.

A woman from London will give birth next week to the first British baby screened to be free of a hereditary mutated gene for breast cancer.

Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-Wood insists a major boardroom reshuffle will not alter their policy of trying to keep the club's ownership in-house.

Being obese as a child may actually alter the shape of a gland important to growth and metabolism, say Italian scientists.

Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne is killed off in the latest issue of the long-running comic book story.

Kevin Pietersen must alter his one-day tactics to get the national side winning again, says former England batsman Mark Butcher.

The Pentagon is embroiled in a row after releasing a digitally altered photo of a woman general.

Immune cells have been fitted with a synthetic cargo, capable of delivering drugs or vaccines, without altering their function.

A hospital radiographer who altered an X-ray to hide a needle left in a child's foot is struck off by medical watchdogs.

The armed forces and Sinn Féin both alter their respective homecoming parade and protest planned for Belfast on Sunday.

Newsweek's Jonathan Alter explains how Democrats could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

A police officer admits changing his records to show he did not identify Jean Charles de Menezes as a failed suicide bomber.

What is probably the oldest known Bible is being digitised, reuniting its scattered parts for the first time in 160 years ago. But it is markedly different from its modern equivalent. What's left out?

The Church of England may rethink its rules on how it invests money after its two most senior figures condemned "short-selling", a source says.

Athletes with intellectual disabilities will be able to compete at the 2012 Games, the International Paralympic Committee announces.

US Vice-President Dick Cheney visits Georgia and says Russia's actions there are an "illegitimate" attempt to alter borders.

Plans to locate a sculpture on a quayside may be scrapped in favour of a more "practical" and "suitable" site up river.

Plans to alter the running of a hospital's minor casualty unit are to go to health councillors for approval.

A children's book by Dame Jacqueline Wilson is to be altered after parents complain it contains offensive language.

Russia's military victory alters the power balance in the Caucasus and leaves many Georgians facing a difficult future, argues Caucasus expert Thomas de Waal.