The Government has shown "no leadership" on cycle safety despite an alarming rise in cyclist deaths over the past year, it has been claimed.

The head of Sky News said journalists have to consider breaking the law to "shed light" on wrongdoing as it emerged that media regulator Ofcom is launching an investigation into the hacking of private email accounts by the broadcaster.

Republican voters have given a thumbs-up to Condoleezza Rice as their preferred choice as running mate for Mitt Romney as he gears up to challenge Barack Obama.

Not many films get to announce their sequel by having its star, in character, storm a chat show to broadcast the news. But few films of the last 10 years are as universally loved as Anchorman – it's kind of a big deal.

Will Ferrell makes a surprise appearance on the Conan show as Ron Burgundy to announce Anchorman sequel is on the way

It's hardly a secret that the debate on law and order tends to be skewed to the right of the political spectrum. Sentences are too short, prisons are too soft: the discourse of more punishment, less rehabilitation, is depressingly familiar. Now the Government seems ready to cave in to demands that TV cameras should be allowed into courtrooms in England and Wales, supposedly to reassure us that justice is actually being done.

There is a difference between sitting in the public gallery and seeing clips on TV

Cafe customers in new Broadcasting House building can gaze straight into newsroom

Surging Republican candidate closes on upset that would leave Romney vulnerable

Detectives were last night questioning a 24-year-old man in connection with the murder of a Birmingham couple battered to death in their home. West Midlands Police said officers arrested the man at a house in Birmingham on Friday. The arrest followed the discovery of the bodies of Avtar Kolar, 62, and his wife, Carole, 58, at their home in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, by their policeman son on Wednesday. The couple had been married for 40 years.

Police will today try to force news broadcasters and documentary-makers to hand over film of the eviction of travellers from the controversial Dale Farm site in Essex, in a move condemned as the latest attack on press freedom.

Didn't he just get fired?

US Outlook: So, farewell then, Jonathan Klein, president of CNN. The suits at Time Warner decided it was time to punish him for falling ratings at the news channel, which has lost out to the shock-jockery of rival Fox News and its leftist mirror image, MSNBC.

The former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned two years ago after he admitted using a prostitute, is to co-host a show on CNN.