Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has invited the main opposition party leader to inspect the toilets in his lavish, 1,150-room palace after the politician claimed it had gold-plated toilet seats.

A UK company that promised to make people debt free for as little as £1 (€1.16) has been ordered to stop trading, it emerged.

A court hearing was today being held to assess what damages should be paid to a woman who accused her Roman Catholic priest of assault and battery during an affair with him.