Two US Air Force servicemen have died after a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying American military personnel at Frankfurt Airport, police say. Read the full story

An aide to the Russian judge who convicted Mikhail Khodorkovsky at his second trial last year has said he did not write his own verdict. Judge Viktor Danilkin resented having to take orders from above during the trial of the former tycoon, Natalya Vasilyeva told Russian media. Read the full story

The coalition expects 500,000 public sector jobs to be lost as a result of the drastic spending cuts, it was revealed today.
Danny Alexander let slip the forecast when he was spotted driving into the Treasury with an open copy of the Comprehensive Spending Review on his lap. Read the full story

Three security guards have been arrested over the death of a man on a plane at Heathrow Airport, as he was being deported from the UK to Angola. Read the full story

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he has met the Russian agents recently deported from the US – and claimed they were living “tough lives” and had been “betrayed”. Read the full story

Anna Chapman, one of the Russian spies deported from the United States, has been deprived of her British citizenship, the BBC understands. Read the full story

A new financial study suggests that the UK’s public sector debt is more than a trillion pounds higher than official government figures. Read the full story

Immigration controls for people from Pakistan who wish to settle in the UK have failed to protect British borders, an independent report has said. Read the full story

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Iran is “moving closer” to having the potential to create nuclear weapons. It is one of the first times Moscow has publicly recognised that Iran might be moving towards a nuclear weapon. Read the full story

New photographs have emerged showing Fidel Castro greeting workers in a rare public appearance. The images of a grey-bearded Castro, 83, smiling and wearing a white tracksuit, offer a rare glimpse of the reclusive former Cuban leader. Read the full story

More than a million people have taken to the streets in Barcelona to protest a court ruling against Catalonia’s statute of autonomy, which forbade the region to call itself a nation. Read the full story

A French court has convicted Panama’s former military ruler Manuel Noriega on charges of laundering drug money, sentencing him to seven years in jail. Read the full story

Prosecutors have launched an investigation into claims of illegal campaign funding for French President Nicolas Sarkozy.The move follows allegations by a former accountant for France’s richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt. Read the full story

The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war will reportedly grill former British Prime Minister Tony Blair again amid releasing of secret memos on the legality of the invasion. Read the full story

French public debt has soared to 80.3 percent of its gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2010, invoking the specter of a Greek-style financial breakdown. Read the full story

A spokesman for the federal public prosecutor told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday that Poland had arrested an intelligence officer involved in the assassination of senior Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. Read the full story

Already battling a euro zone debt crisis, sinking poll ratings and policy scraps with an increasingly awkward coalition partner, Merkel must now quickly find a successful candidate for president, whose role is largely ceremonial. Read the full story

President Nicolas Sarkozy will attempt on Monday to convince some 40 African government leaders gathered at a summit in Nice that France has cleaned up its relationship with the African continent, after years of dodgy dealings with its ex-colonies. Read the full story