Mazher Mahmood, a British journalist known for his undercover work posing as a "fake sheikh", has been suspended by The Sun after the collapse of a celebrity trial in which he was a main witness.

The trial of Tulisa Contostavlos over drugs allegations has collapsed.

An undercover reporter has told a court he wanted to "expose criminality" about an alleged drug deal involving Tulisa Constostavlos and it was "outrageous" to suggest he spiked the singer’s drink during one of their meetings.

Former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos helped to supply cocaine to an undercover reporter who promised he could help the singer crack the movie business, a court has heard.

Former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos helped to supply cocaine to an undercover reporter who promised he could help the singer crack the movie business, a court has heard.

A friend of former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos today admitted supplying cocaine to an undercover reporter.

Former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos is due to go on trial today accused of being concerned in brokering a drug deal.

Former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos has appeared in court accused of being concerned in brokering a drug deal.

Controversial reality TV show Benefits Street looks set to return for a second series – but will not be filming in Birmingham.

Singer Tulisa Contostavlos has denied being concerned with the supply of Class A drugs.

Singer Tulisa Contostavlos will appear in court today charged in connection with the supply of Class A drugs.

Former 'X Factor' judge Tulisa Contostavlos has today been charged in connection with the supply of Class A drugs.

Former world champion boxer Herbie Hide has been jailed for conspiracy to supply cocaine after a court heard he fell for a sting operation set up by an investigative journalist known as the Fake Sheikh.

Three men accused of travelling to Pakistan for terrorism training, including a British Muslim convert, appeared in court today.

Gunmen killed eight people in an attack on a Pakistani army camp near a city where thousands of hardline Islamists stopped on their way to the capital to protest against the decision to reopen the Nato supply line to Afghanistan, police said.

News Corporation tabloid reporter Mazher Mahmood, known as the “fake sheikh” for the scoops he obtained by imitating a wealthy Arab, told an inquiry into media ethics that unreliable people are often good sources.

A PRIVATE investigator working for Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid did not delete voicemails from the phone of a missing girl, a police lawyer said last night — casting new light on the critical event that sparked Britain’s phone-hacking scandal.

A former News of the World investigative journalist today told an inquiry into press standards in the UK that his work had led to more than 260 “successful criminal prosecutions”.

Godolphin trainer Saeed bin Suroor will no longer have a team of horses running under his name in the United States.

The discovery of Osama bin Laden’s hideaway in a city at the heart of Pakistan’s military establishment today revived questions about alleged links between al-Qaida and elements in the country’s security forces.

IT was hard to avoid the feeling of anticlimax at Newmarket yesterday, but it will not have affected those connected with Godolphin as Blue Bunting slipped virtually unnoticed up the stands rail to collect the Qipco 1000 Guineas.

Godolphin’s Blue Bunting finished with a late surge to land the Qipco 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in the hands of Frankie Dettori.

A man handed himself in for questioning after his ex-wife was injured and her cousin killed in a knife attack at the couple’s former home.

A Latvian woman and her Pakistani fiancee have secured leave to bring a High Court challenge against the Limerick County Registrar's refusal to allow their marriage, following a Garda objection.

Exiled Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf told a rally in Britain today of his plans to return to the country at the head of a new party in a bid to regain power.

AIDAN O’Brien believes St Nicholas Abbey will be more than capable of handling the Epsom undulations in the Investec Derby.

Aidan O’Brien believes St Nicholas Abbey will be more than capable of handling the Epsom undulations in the Investec Derby.

Three policemen have been found shot dead – each by a single bullet to the head - west of Pakistan’s capital.

A British MP called today for a council to review its childcare procedures after the death of a seven-year-old girl who was allegedly starved at her home in the UK.

Lawyers today vowed to defy a ban on public gatherings and protest when Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf files nomination papers tomorrow to formally make his bid for a new five-year term.

Flash flooding caused by torrential rain and thunderstorms struck several villages in mountainous north-western Pakistan, leaving at least 22 people dead, a senior government official said today.

A property expert told a court that the price media mogul Conrad Black paid for a co-op apartment on New York’s Upper East Side was £2.7m (€4m) below fair market value.

The probe into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer is “inconclusive” and has not proved that he was murdered, a Pakistani investigator said today.

ENGLAND captain Michael Vaughan admitted his side had “let a lot of people down” after they were knocked out of the World Cup in humiliating fashion by South Africa yesterday.

Ireland’s cricketers celebrated St Patrick’s day in style with a superb performance in the field to dismiss Pakistan for 132 and raise hopes of a major World Cup shock.

A Pakistani couple injured in a deadly train bombing in a remote Indian village returned home today with caskets containing the charred remains of five of their children, officials said.

A MAN appeared in a London court yesterday charged with planning to kidnap and kill a member of the armed forces in a plot apparently aimed at Muslims who had served with British troops in Iraq or Afghanistan.

PAUL COLLINGWOOD made partial amends for a costly error by becoming England’s unlikely candidate to halt Pakistan’s record-breaking march towards a major lead in the third Test yesterday.

A MEMBER of a British terror cell with alleged links to al-Qaida was involved in a plot to buy a radioactive bomb, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.

Sven Goran Eriksson’s agent dismissed a newspaper sting accusing the England manager of taking his eye off the World Cup to try to secure a lucrative managerial career as “disgraceful entrapment” today.

Al-Qaida and other Islamic terror groups have issued a warning about suicide attacks on Turkey, Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

Police in northern Pakistan are hunting for a man accused of butchering his stepmother and five young siblings.

The United Nations Security Council has ordered a global freeze on the assets of a Pakistani organisation, two former nuclear scientists and a Pakistani industrialist suspected of links to Osama bin Laden.

Pakistan said today it would not escalate a war of words with India that has worsened relations between the nuclear neighbours, and urged New Delhi to act responsibly to avoid outright conflict.