Brown statement on the G8 Summit
Gordon Brown has urged the UN to use the "full weight of the international community" to isolate the "illegitimate" state of Zimbabwe.
In a statement to MPs on this week's G8 summit, he said there was a "growing international coalition for change".
He also outlined G8 action on oil and food prices and climate change, including a target to halve global carbon emissions by 2050.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7499551.stmDavid Cameron and Gordon Brown clash over road tax
David Cameron has told Gordon Brown he will be ousted if he does not drop his "deeply unpopular" plans for higher road tax on more polluting cars.
In angry question time exchanges, he challenged Mr Brown: "Don't you understand that if you don't get rid of it, they will get rid of you?"
But the PM said the Tory leader sounded "more like a used car salesman".
Some green groups say the tax should apply to new cars only, rather than all cars bought since 2001.
Owners of some of the oldest cars could face a tax rise of as much as £200 - a move which the Conservatives and many Labour MPs say will hit poorer drivers the hardest.
 |  It's not my backbenchers who are telling me to get on my bike  David Cameron Conservative leader |
Mr Brown insisted that 24 of the top 30 models of car would incur the same vehicle excise duty or lower.
But Mr Cameron hit back: "What you are doing is treating the Ford Focus as one model - in fact there are 40 models of the Ford Focus. You've got the saloon and the estate."
He said owners of only three of these 40 models would be better off. "When are you going to stop using such dodgy statistics to back up your figures?"
And as Labour MPs jeered, Mr Cameron quipped: "I don't know why you're all shouting at me - it's the prime minister who's given you the lowest poll rating since Michael Foot."
'Stealth tax'
Mr Brown, who taunted the Tory leader for riding his bike to work while a car followed with his bags, said: "When are the Conservative Party going to be honest when they say they support green taxes and then they run away from every one of them?
"You are sounding more and more like a used car salesman today."
Mr Cameron replied: "It's not my backbenchers who are telling me to get on my bike."
| We haven't got a problem with green taxes but they have got to be fair and the retrospective bit of this tax is not fair Ronnie Campbell Labour MP |
He said the road tax rise was "not a green tax, it's a stealth tax". "What on earth is green about taxing someone who bought a Ford Mondeo five years ago?"
|  Labour backbenchers have criticised the reforms to the road tax system  |
An estimated 9.4 million motorists will have to pay more road tax under reforms aimed at punishing "gas-guzzling" vehicles, the government has admitted.
Official estimates say vehicle excise duty will rise for 43% of vehicles made since 2001 - by up to £245 for the most polluting ones - but will fall for 18%.
The AA said the figures, for 2010-11, confirmed "our worst fears", while the Tories said the PM misled Parliament.
No 10 rejected that suggestion and said the aim was to cut carbon emissions.'Come down from dithering heights'
Gordon Brown has said it is "absolutely correct" to compare him to Heathcliff - the brooding, romantic anti-hero of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights.
In a New Statesman interview the prime minister was told: "Some women say you remind them of Heathcliff."
He replied: "Maybe an older Heathcliff, a wiser Heathcliff."
He said unlike Heathcliff, he did not "generally" lose his temper. But Bronte expert Ann Dinsdale said the character was actually "not an ideal role-model".  |
Degrees are being awarded to overseas students who speak almost no English, claims a whistleblowing academic.
The academic, at a world-famous UK university, says postgraduate degrees are awarded to students lacking in the most basic language skills.
There are concerns that financial pressures to recruit overseas students for cash rather than quality could threaten the credibility of degrees.
But Universities UK says there are "rigorous" checks on standards.
The number of overseas students taking higher degree courses, such as masters and doctorates, has soared - rising more than eightfold since the mid-1990s.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7358528.stmGordon Brown on the 42-day terror detention limit
Gordon Brown has defended the use of CCTV, ID cards and the DNA database - saying they protect civil liberties.
In a speech to the IPPR think tank, the prime minister said they helped ensure people's right to live free from crime.
He also defended 42-day detention, saying the authorities could not afford a "head-in-the-sand" approach to it.
Both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats said Mr Brown could not claim to champion freedom when he was attempting to undermine it.  Ministers will give up their 2008/9 pay rises |
All government ministers will give up their 1.5% pay rise for this financial year, Downing Street has announced.
The prime minister's decision was approved at this morning's Cabinet meeting, his spokesman said.
Gordon Brown said ministers would not accept a pay rise "given the importance of public sector pay restraint at a time of economic uncertainty".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7458889.stmPresident Bush warns Iran that "all options" are on the table
Gordon Brown and President George Bush have warned Iran to accept their "offers of partnership" or face tough sanctions and international isolation.
The UK prime minister said he wanted to maintain a dialogue with Tehran, but if Iran ignores UN resolutions then sanctions would be intensified.
Europe would freeze overseas assets of Iran's biggest bank and impose new oil and gas sanctions, he said.
But the EU foreign policy chief said no new sanctions had so far been agreed.  The documents were found on a train heading to London's Waterloo station |
More sensitive government files were found on a commuter train earlier this week, it has been revealed.
The Independent on Sunday says it was handed the documents, which cover fighting global terrorist funding, drugs trafficking and money laundering.
The files were found on the same day as the BBC was handed top secret papers on al-Qaeda. A Treasury spokesman said the government was "extremely concerned".
The Tories are calling for controls to protect secret official information.  MoD staff are banned from taking unencrypted laptops out of offices |
The Ministry of Defence says a laptop has been stolen from a member of the military as he was eating in McDonalds.
The computer was taken from under the Army captain's chair, near the MoD's Whitehall headquarters on 1 April, according to the Sun newspaper.
The MoD said the data on the laptop was not sensitive, and was fully encrypted.
It comes after a laptop holding details of 600,000 people who applied to join the armed forces was stolen from a car in Edgbaston, Birmingham, in January.
