Friday 5 July
• Council workers strike
More than one million council workers are to hold a national strike for the first time since the Winter of Discontent in 1979. Local authority staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland rejected a 3% pay offer.
The Football League agreed a £95m deal with satellite broadcaster Sky
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Football league The Football league agreed a deal with satellite broadcaster Sky to show matches over the next four years. It is paying £95m pounds to screen 60 games a season.
• Algeria
30 people were killed and 37 injured in an explosion in Algeria. The blast happened in the market village of Larbaa, south of the capital, Algiers.
Thursday 4 July
• Airport shooting
A gunman opened fire at the ticket counter of Israeli airline El Al at Los Angeles International Airport, killing one person before being shot dead himself.
• Potters Bar
An investigation into the Potters Bar rail crash criticised the condition of a number of sets of points in the area, and raised concerns about standards of maintenance across the network.
• Harold Shipman
The home secretary decided that mass murderer Harold Shipman should never be released from jail. David Blunkett said the nature of the former GP's offences warranted nothing less than what's known as a "whole life tariff".
Wednesday 3 July
• George Bush
The White House acknowledged that President Bush failed to follow rules about the sales of stocks when he was a company director. A spokesman blamed it on a clerical mistake by lawyers.
President Bush failed to follow the law on selling shares
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Plane crash More details emerged about the chain of events that preceded the mid-air crash between a Russian airliner and a cargo plane over southern Germany on Monday night. Swiss air traffic controllers confirmed an automatic warning system in their control centre was not working during the minutes before the crash.
• Identity cards
Home Secretary David Blunkett threw his weight behind plans to introduce a form of compulsory national identity card. The so-called "entitlement card" would initially be proof of the holder's eligibility for healthcare and state benefits.
Tuesday 2 July
• Plane crash
An investigation began into why sophisticated anti-collision devices failed to stop the mid-air crash between a Russian passenger jet and a Boeing cargo plane. Seventy-one people died in the accident, over southern Germany.
• Afghanistan
A US military commander has said the warplane which apparently killed dozens of civilians in southern Afghanistan opened fire because its crew thought they were being shot at.
• Baby deaths
The case of Sally Clark - the solicitor serving a life sentence for killing her two babies - is to go to the Court of Appeal for a second time.
Monday 1 July
• Afghanistan
The Afghan Ministry of Defence said at least 30 guests at a wedding party were killed in a bombardment by American planes. The Pentagon said a US bomb went astray, but couldn't confirm details of casualties.
Feroz Abbasi is being held at a US military base in Cuba
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Feroz Abbasi Lawyers representing a British man being held at a US military base in Cuba, accused of fighting for the Taleban, were granted a judicial review to challenge Britain's role in his treatment.
• International Criminal Court
The US war against terrorism and its other military activities in foreign countries has led to the deepening of a diplomatic row between Europe and the United States over how to bring war criminals to justice.
Sunday 30 June
• Israeli killing
The Israelis said they killed a senior commander of the militant Islamic group, Hamas, in the West Bank city of Nablus. They said Muhamed Taher was the group's military leader in the area.
• World Cup
Tens of millions of people watched Brazil win the World Cup for a record fifth time. They beat Germany two-nil in the final in the Japanese city of Yokohama.
• North Korea-South Korea
North Korea rejected calls from the UN for talks to defuse the mounting tension between it and its neighbour, South Korea. Yesterday's naval gun battle at their disputed maritime border left at least five South Koreans dead or missing.
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