The BBC's Barbara Plett looks at why Pakistan's new government is finding it so difficult to restore judges sacked last year.

Liverpool and Manchester United are wrestling over a player, but outside football is there really a bitter rivalry?

Reaction to the death of controversial former Irish premier Charles Haughey at the age of 80 after a long illness.

A look at what's making the headlines in Wednesday's newspapers.

Leading churchmen urge ministers to do more to help service personnel who became ill after the 1991 Gulf War.

The complete transcript of Jeremy Paxman's BBC Two interview with Harry Potter creator JK Rowling.

Join your host Nick Robinson as he casts his eye over the week's news from Westminster and beyond.

Political vengeance and score-settling convulse the Indian state of Tamil Nadu in a drama that could straight from a film script.

Microsoft lawyers renew claims that a judge who ordered the firm to be broken up over claims of market abuse was biased.

Hillary Clinton is accused of "cavorting with terrorists" by rival Rick Lazio in a stormy TV debate in the race to be New York senator.

The BBC's political editor looks at the problems facing the three main parties in his last political briefing.

Peers compare Gordon Brown's attack on Oxford University with the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

The press has used Tony Blair's dismissal of the Lord Chancellor's proposal that newspapers should be subject to "prior restraint" as a stick with which it can beat the minister.