The Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde will learn within weeks if he is to become the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner.

A dedicated commissioner should be appointed to look after the needs of crime victims, Scottish Labour demands.

The company which manages a major Scottish estate group has its vehicle licence cut by a watchdog.

A Glasgow-based bus company is fined £7,600 by the Traffic Commissioner for Scotland.

Sir Hugh Orde is one of four candidates placed on the shortlist to be the next Metropolitan Police Commissioner.

Four candidates have been short-listed for the job of Metropolitan Police Commissioner, the BBC learns.

European Commissioner Luis Michel visits DR Congo rebel leader Gen Laurent Nkunda to try to broker a peace deal.

Iceland may apply to join the European Union as soon as next year, the EU's enlargement commissioner says.

A bailiff group apologises for the "accidental release" of hundreds of e-mail addresses on a debt-chasing message.

Nations around the world mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Proposals to cut the number of Scots commissioners from six to three are put to MSPs.

Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, pays homage to two leading women's rights campaigners, the late Eleanor Roosevelt and Jestina Makoko of Zimbabwe.

The daughter of IRA murder victims fails in a legal bid to bring Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness to court.

The full text of a letter sent by the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick to the home secretary answering a number of questions about the search of Damian Green's Common's office:

The EU competition commissioner says she expects banks that receive state aid to give commitments to lend to the real economy.

Sir Hugh Orde, head of policing in Northern Ireland, and Julie Spence from Cambridgeshire, apply for the Met Commissioner job.

India summons Pakistan's high commissioner to protest over groups it claims carried out deadly attacks in Mumbai.

The international community is "horrified" at Scotland's age of criminal responsibility, says the Scots children's commissioner.

The police complaints commissioner says a force "filtered" the information it passed to the procurator fiscal.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger praises the appointment of Major League Soccer deputy commissioner Ivan Gazidis as the club's new chief executive.