Britain's establishment, including politics, the media and big business, is "broken" and must be radically reformed, Nick Clegg will claim today.

The results of the first round of Egypt's presidential election are at once hugely positive, and hugely negative.

Kenny Dalglish's second term as Liverpool manager felt like a personal fiefdom at times – such as on the morning, in the pit of the Luis Suarez/Patrice Evra saga, when he sat down with managing director Ian Ayre and director of football Damien Comolli to help illuminate his club's position. Dalglish took the middle seat, with Ayre and Comolli on the flanks. That said it all.

Less than a day after taking office, Greece's new caretaker government was faced with yet another credit downgrade as Fitch that warned Athens of a "probable" exit from the eurozone if pro-bailout parties failed to win new elections due on 17 June.

Among the nations of the Arab Spring, Bahrain is an unusual case.

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain discussed a political union at a meeting in Riyadh yesterday in a development that could see the tiny Gulf kingdom largely absorbed by its neighbour.

For ninth straight day, party leaders were struggling to form a new coalition government, riven by differences over the harsh austerity measures demanded by international creditors in return for rescue loans.

Baron Cohen's back, with jokes to make Colonel Gaddafi wince

This will come as small consolation to the Greeks, but when it comes to democracy, they can now empathise with how the English feel about football. Being the inventors of a game is no protection against incompetence at playing it, nor any defence against the cosmic law which dictates that, after all the huffing and puffing, the Germans will own you in the end.

Levels of poverty and unemployment unseen since the 1930s pose a mortal threat to our political system

Country's future in eurozone thrown into doubt as groups opposed to EU bailout make gains

A former leading general close to Burma's former dictator Than Shwe has reportedly given up his position in the Burmese government amid talk of a battle between reformers and hardliners.

Greeks angered by a vicious and protracted financial crisis punished the parties that have dominated politics for decades Sunday, with projected election results showing them hemorrhaging support to anti-bailout groups and no party gaining enough ballots to form a government.