Renault are likely to make a decision on their Formula One future next week with two rival groups now in the running to take over.

The wife of a minister found dead in his home has confessed to shooting him at their church parsonage in Selmer, Tennessee, then fleeing to Alabama, where she was found the following night with their three young daughters, authorities said today.

The European Union today said it was consulting neighbouring countries before deciding on any sanctions on Belarussian officials following presidential elections in the ex-Soviet country, and would also talk to Russia.

The European Union today said the mutual trusts between religious communities had been badly damaged by the recent crisis over the Prophet Mohammed drawings, and called the furore a “most regrettable development”.

EU governments' record of fighting racism and xenophobia in 2004 was mixed, at best, and they must do more to end discrimination in employment, housing, education and other sectors, the EU’s racism monitoring agency said today.

Czech authorities have no information about 14 Czech citizens believed to be in London during the bombings yesterday that killed at least 50 people.

Former Take That singer Robbie Williams has had no luck breaking into the fickle American pop scene but he might be poised on the brink of a Hollywood movie career instead.

Prosecutors investigating a brawl in Munich involving Oasis star Liam Gallagher said today that tests showed he and another band member tested positive for drugs.

Anti-Semitic violence is on the rise in several EU countries, including Britain, with “young white men” the main perpetrators, the EU’s anti-racism office said today.

Sometimes Hollywood can rise above itself and come up, as here, with a deeply involving film which manages to take in a wide range of emotions and plotlines.