Consultation over the need for a third runway at Heathrow has been a "complete sham", the Conservatives claim.

A drug addict who went through with two sham marriages with African women is jailed for bigamy.

Civil servants are being paid almost £50m a year but have no role and should be found work or fired, Tories say.

A bride is arrested in her wedding dress after allegedly taking part in a sham marriage to get around immigration rules.

Amnesty International criticises death sentences passed on alleged Sudan rebels from Darfur.

Law Lords rule the Home Secretary cannot use controversial powers to stop sham marriages.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Burmese military's plan to restore democracy gradually is a sham.

A barrister who tried to claim £17.5m in VAT for the imaginary sale of aircraft engines is jailed for five years.

Zimbabwe's UN envoy dismisses calls for sanctions, as African leaders meet in the wake of polls marred by violence.

Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai condemns "mass" election intimidation.

Voting proceeds slowly in Zimbabwe's run-off poll, denounced by the EU as a sham.

Seven women and a man are put on 12 months probation for their parts in a sham marriage scam.

The BBC's South East Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head, looks at what Burma's new constitution - overwhelmingly backed in a 10 May vote widely condemned as a sham - will mean for the future of the country's military rulers.

A 30-year-old Nigerian man is jailed for arranging sham marriages to assist with illegal immigration.

A man who arranged sham marriages to win illegal immigrants legal status in NI is jailed for four years.

Syrian Druze in the occupied Golan Heights wave to relatives across the ceasefire line to celebrate a historic uprising, reports Martin Asser.

Aberdeen City Council's administration is accused of ignoring protests over school closure plans.

The EU and the US are among those accepting flawed votes for political expediency, Human Rights Watch says.

Uzbekistan's president wins 88% of the vote in Sunday's election, which monitors have dismissed as a sham.

The four main defendants in the £53m Securitas robbery trial put on a "sham innocence" for the Old Bailey jury, a court hears.