Pakistan's new government publishes details of defence spending for the first time in 40 years.

The Pentagon declassifies a legal memo dating to March 2003 which allowed the use of harsh interrogation methods.

Forty years after the USS Liberty was attacked by Israeli forces off the coast of Egypt, the incident remains the subject of intense debate, writes Raffi Berg.

The trial of a former key White House aide sheds light on the inner workings of the under-fire Bush administration, writes the BBC's Richard Allen Greene.

The Bush administration rejects calls for the release in full of a report linking the Iraq conflict to terrorism.

US Democrats urge the Bush administration to release in full a report linking the Iraq conflict and global terrorism.

The Iraq conflict has become a "cause celebre" for Muslim jihadists, a declassified US intelligence report says.

A police survey shows black people are more likely to face charges of possessing cannabis.

Romania is gripped by a political storm over the files of the Securitate, the former communist secret police.

The team responsible for policing Brixton town centre is cut by half as part of a restructuring of the borough's force.

The level of cocaine use in the UK is as high as it is in the US, a new report on international drug use suggests.

Previously secret documents suggest the US may have escalated its war in Vietnam based on faulty intelligence.

China says it will no longer treat death tolls in natural disasters as a state secret, in a move to be more open.

As many teenage girls as boys drink alcohol, latest official statistics show.

Documents and photographs released by MI5 have given a fascinating insight into the real-life intrigue which inspired James Bond's creator Ian Fleming - from exploding fountain pens to human torpedoes.

Aviation officials in the US had many warnings that airlines might be hijacked in the months before 11 September.

US politicians are calling on the CIA to hand over details of the Nazi war criminals recruited after World War II.

Mouth cancer rates could soar because young people are smoking and drinking more, experts have warned.

Police who found cannabis plants in Alderney are asking residents to check their land for signs of cultivation.