The police are likely to discuss new phone-hacking allegations with Number 10 communications chief Andy Coulson, the Met's assistant commissioner says.
Pilots, firefighters, nurses and ambulance workers gather 70 years after battling through eight months of bombing raids over Britain's industrial centres.
Some 450,000 anti-government protesters join rallies across France and a national strike causes major disruption, amid rising anger over pension reforms.
The UK is slipping behind international rivals in university places, according to figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The US commander in Afghanistan warns troops' lives will be at risk if a Florida church goes ahead with its plan to throw copies of the Koran into a bonfire, but the pastor behind the stunt defends it.
Thousands of people will find out if they have been undercharged or are overpaid by the taxman. Up to six million people have been paying the wrong amount and the treasury says it cannot afford to write off the money.
Angelina Jolie has visited Nowshera in northwest Pakistan to highlight the plight of more than 20 million people affected by the country's worst ever floods.