Kevin Pietersen is told he will not be recalled by England despite a career-best 326 for Surrey, BBC Sport understands.

Greece's finance minister says his country's financial situation is "terribly urgent" and the crisis could come to a head in a couple of weeks.

Picasso's Women of Algiers becomes the most expensive painting to sell at auction, going for $179.3m at Christie's in New York.

David Cameron says the Conservatives are "the real party of working people" as he prepares to chair the first all-Conservative cabinet for 18 years.

There has been an "alarming" rise in the number of working-age men and women in England having strokes in recent years, a charity warns.

French President Francois Hollande meets revolutionary leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, in the first visit to Cuba by a Western leader since the 1980s.

Royal Dutch Shell wins approval from the US Department of Interior to explore for oil in the Arctic.

Many Gulf heads of state say they will skip the summit of US and allied Arab leaders at Camp David later this week, signalling their displeasure with US-Iran relations.