World News from The BBC

HM Revenue and Customs says some 1.4 million people each owe about £1,500 in tax, while 4.3 million will get an average rebate of £418.

Nine people, including four foreigners, are killed when a light aircraft crashes after taking off from Fox Glacier in New Zealand, say reports.

BP replaces the blowout preventer that failed to stem the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well and says it has paid $8bn (£5.2bn) in damage costs.

Israeli and Palestinian talks seen from the inside

Powerful earthquake damages New Zealand city of Christchurch

Talks to form a coalition government in the Netherlands collapse as the leader of the far-right Freedom Party Geert Wilders walks out.

Downing Street's head of communications, Andy Coulson, is safe in his job despite phone hacking claims surrounding the News of the World newspaper, says a senior government source.

A weakened Hurricane Earl is downgraded to a tropical storm as it continues up the US east coast towards Canada.

A weakened Hurricane Earl has passed North Carolina and is continuing up the east coast of the US.

Police question the three Pakistan players accused of corruption, while the ICC says that trio implicated have a disciplinary case to answer.

Fidel Castro warned of nuclear war arising from the dispute that has pitted the United States and Israel against Iran.

Questions over halal meat as market booms in France

A new drill has arrived at the Chilean mine site for an alternative rescue plan, in which a team will drill a separate shaft from a different part of the mountainside.

China gives EU lesson in rural poverty

Some 77% of Britons think taxpayers should not help pay for Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Scotland and England, a survey suggests.

A fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a Tennessee Islamic centre was arson, investigators say.

Reading Arabic 'hard for brain'

A state of emergency is declared in Christchurch after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes New Zealand's South Island, injuring two people seriously.

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair tells the BBC that radical Islam is the greatest threat facing the world.

The committee set up to organise a referendum on independence in southern Sudan decides on a northerner to be its head.