Spectacular firework displays and celebrations are being held around the world to mark the start of the new year.
31/12/2010 04:56 PM
Northern Ireland Water says it expects most homes in NI to have their water restored by the middle of next week.
31/12/2010 04:37 PM
Police are given until Friday evening to question the landlord of landscape architect Jo Yeates about her murder.
31/12/2010 06:57 AM
Singer Annie Lennox is recognised in the New Year Honours, along with actors David Suchet and Sheila Hancock and BA chairman Martin Broughton.
31/12/2010 11:25 AM
Thousands more people are preparing to evacuate their homes as one of Australia's worst floods continues to inundate the state of Queensland.
31/12/2010 09:31 AM
Incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo warns of more violence in Ivory Coast if he were to step down over last month's disputed poll, as the UN demands.
31/12/2010 04:54 PM
Fifteen people, mostly schoolgirls, were drowned when a school bus was swept off the road by flood waters, Egyptian police say.
31/12/2010 01:52 PM
A strike is held across Pakistan to protest against possible changes to blasphemy laws, under which a Christian woman has been sentenced to die.
31/12/2010 10:01 AM
The media watchdog submits its report on News Corporation's controversial takeover bid to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt but it remains confidential.
31/12/2010 03:47 PM
The government's spending cuts are difficult but vital to help the UK back onto its feet, the prime minister says in his new year message.
31/12/2010 02:33 AM
A black community leader issues a "call to action" over the fatal shooting of teenager Sylvester Akapalara in south London.
31/12/2010 03:41 PM
Anna Chapman, the former Russian spy deported from the US this year, is presented with a lion cub on Russian TV.
31/12/2010 11:22 AM
