One of the main routes into Doncaster from the M18 motorway is to be closed for two weeks for roadworks. Work begins on Tuesday to rebuild the A630 and the whole project is scheduled to last 10 months.

Recent months have seen contrasting fortunes for police on Latin America's two key fronts in the war on drugs.

Vandals have forced a playground in a Leicestershire town to close, after causing £20,000 of damage in two separate attacks. Last Friday, intruders set fire to part of the Stapleford Park site, off Cropston Avenue in Loughborough.

Human rights group Amnesty International has said it is extremely alarmed by what it calls a "climate of discrimination" in Italy. The Italian section of the rights body said recent tough new immigration measures were a worrying trend.

They're clunky, dirty and can't access the internet, yet every year thousands of people buy typewriters when they could probably afford a computer. Why?

In Sydney, a light show is being staged to mark this week's Fifa Congress meeting in the Australian city. The images of international football legends are the largest projections ever cast onto the bridge.

The leader of the UVF-linked Progressive Unionist Party has said she would like to see loyalists decommission their weapons.

Two people have been arrested over the stabbing of a 22-year-old waiter in Greater Manchester. The victim suffered a punctured lung after being stabbed in the chest as he chased a gang of up to a dozen youths from outside a restaurant in Farnworth.