The City watchdog in the UK is to hold an investigation into the events which led to the British government’s rescue of HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland, it was reported today.

Two teenage girls were facing life in prison today after being found guilty of the murder of a middle-aged man they accused of making an indecent proposal during a party.

Gunmen opened fire on a British patrol in Kabul and the British returned fire, a press officer for the peacekeepers said today.