Police blocked a protest march by former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and hundreds of supporters today.

Pakistan’s government today urged exiled former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif not to return home, saying he should honour a promise he made to stay away after being ousted from power.

A court today ordered the arrest of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s brother, three days before the siblings are to return to Pakistan to challenge President Gen Pervez Musharraf, a lawyer said.

Corruption cases against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif have been reopened in Pakistan, and a court today ordered the arrest of his younger brother ahead of their return home from exile next week.

One or more of the Big Brother housemates already evicted are set for a shock return to the show, according to reports.

Another housemate has quit the UK's troubled Big Brother house.

A new housemate looks set to enter the Big Brother house after a bookmaker suspended betting today on whether fresh blood is about to join the show.

Food became the focal point of the latest Big Brother task tonight as housemates began playing a “game show” for their right to a £500 (€730) dream shopping list.

The first eviction from the Big Brother house takes place tonight – but the contestant who gets kicked out won’t be the first to leave the programme in what has been an eventful week.

Anguished former Big Brother housemate Shahbaz has apologised for his erratic behaviour on the TV show, claiming he was haunted by his past of “homelessness, starvation, sexual abuse and molestation”.

Bonnie is hot favourite to be one of three Big Brother housemates nominated today for the first eviction of this year’s contest.

Big Brother housemate Shahbaz has walked out of the TV house, a show spokeswoman said tonight.

The seventh series of the UK's Big Brother kicked off tonight with promises that life in the house will be “more twisted than ever”.

Officials in southern Pakistan today rejected a bid by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to run in parliamentary elections because she has been convicted of corruption.