Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius will find out today if he is guilty of the manslaughter of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp during a Valentine's Day shooting at his home in Pretoria.
The double-amputee broke down in court yesterday as he was cleared of two murder charges, but judge Thokozile Masipa hinted the 27-year-old may be convicted of a lesser charge of culpable homicide after describing his actions as "negligent" on the night she died.
The 27-year-old athlete broke down as judge Masipa said there was not enough evidence to support prosecution claims Pistorius intended to kill the law graduate-turned-model last year.
SNP and Labour on campaign trail
SNP leaders will visit Scotland's seven cities while their Labour counterparts will rally support in Glasgow as both sides of the independence campaign continue to push for votes.
With just six days to go until the referendum Alex Salmond and his deputy Nicola Sturgeon will campaign for a Yes vote in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness and Perth.
Labour leader Ed Miliband will be joined by former prime minister Gordon Brown and Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont at a rally in Glasgow, as the party seeks to take the lead in building support for the No campaign.
Johnson makes pitch for nomination
Boris Johnson faces a first hurdle in his bid to return to the Commons today when Conservatives in Uxbridge and South Ruislip vote on whether to install him as their candidate for the 2015 general election.
The London mayor is one of four short-listed candidates making their pitch for the nomination in the safe seat in the north west of the capital before a secret ballot of party members to decide the winner.
Failure to secure their support would be a severe blow to the senior Tory, whose confirmation after months of speculation that he would seek a return to Westminster fuelled speculation he is positioning himself as a successor to David Cameron as party leader.
Harry to play wheelchair rugby
Prince Harry will take centre stage in the Invictus Games today as he joins stars of sport and entertainment for an exhibition wheelchair rugby match.
Harry will line up alongside Olympians Dame Kelly Holmes and Denise Lewis, as well as his cousin Zara Phillips and her Rugby World Cup-winning husband Mike Tindall, and fellow England rugby player Jason Robinson for the match at the Copper Box Arena this evening.
Rugby legend Jonny Wilkinson and former England rugby manager Sir Clive Woodward will lock horns as managers for each team in the competition, which will see the stars line up alongside wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women.
Osborne hails deal with China
Chancellor George Osborne has hailed new commercial deals between British and Chinese firms worth more than £2.4 billion as the Government seeks to strengthen economic ties with Beijing.
Mr Osborne will use the sixth annual economic summit between the two countries in London, attended by Chinese vice premier Ma Kai, to set out measures to encourage more high spending Chinese tourists to visit Britain by easing visa restrictions.
A new initiative will refund the cost of up to 25,000 visas issued to Chinese tourists booking on to UK tours through a network of approved operators in China while VisitBritain and the Home Office are investing £1.6 million marketing Britain in China.
Just 3% may get highest GCSE grades
Just 3% of teenagers could score the highest grades in new GCSE English and maths exams, it has been revealed.
Under major reforms, only a fifth of pupils who would currently achieve at least an A grade will be awarded a "grade 9" - the top result available in the new system.
This could mean that fewer pupils achieve the highest mark in the future.
Campaign for fair energy prices
A consumer watchdog has launched a campaign calling for "fair" energy prices after a poll found just one in five people trusted suppliers' charging practices.
Which? has called for simpler tariffs alongside a "credible, independent benchmark" or a "price to beat" set by regulator Ofgem against which consumers could compare costs.
The watchdog said its latest poll revealed a "shocking" lack of trust in energy companies, with just 18% of consumers trusting suppliers to charge a fair price for their energy and more than half (54%) saying they found it difficult to compare the cost of different deals.
Council spending lacks scrutiny
MPs have expressed concerns that insufficient scrutiny is being given to how local councils spend billions of pounds of taxpayers' money.
The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said too much reliance was placed on the oversight of councillors who "may not have sufficient capacity" to do the job thoroughly.
And hopes that an army of "armchair auditors" would step in to use data published under a new openness regime had been thwarted by the failure to present the information in a useful way.
Dir Donald Sinden dies aged 90
Theatre and film actor Sir Donald Sinden has died at his home aged 90, his son has said.
Sir Donald made his name on stage as a Shakespearean actor and also had more than 70 credits for film and TV productions since the late 1940s to now.
He had been battling prostate cancer over several years and his death, just weeks before his 91st birthday, at his home in Romney Marsh, Kent, has been described as a "huge loss" by his family.
Support for fuel duty pothole plan
More than four in five people would support a plan in which money raised from fuel duty was used to repair potholed roads, research has found.
Support is highest in eastern England, Wales and Yorkshire and Humberside, according to a survey by the Local Government Association (LGA).
The LGA said the Treasury got £33 billion a year from fuel duty, while the Government was spending just under £2 billion a year on maintaining and improving roads over the next five years.
