China denounced the awarding of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo today and said the decision would hurt relations with Norway.

Kate and Gerry McCann want a specialist European policy centre to help find missing children like their daughter Madeleine, an MEP in the UK said today.

A surprise challenge has been mounted to the Tory leadership in the European Parliament - by an alliance of europhile and eurosceptic Conservative MEPs.