16.07 BST Eyewitness Brian Edwards tells Anglia News how he came face to face with the gunman in Whitehaven.

Police have issued the identity of a man they are hunting in connection with a series of fatal shootings from a moving car in the Whitehaven area of Cumbria this morning.

A Taleban suicide squad disguised in Afghan army uniforms clashed with security forces this morning as President Karzai welcomed hundreds of dignitaries to a massive peace conference in Kabul.

The era of the personal computer is coming to an end and the tablet will take its place, Steve Jobs predicted yesterday.

In an hour-long interview broadcast on The Oprah Winfrey Show last night, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, repeatedly talked about herself in the third person, broke down in tears, and declared the US talk show host to be a “genius” when she called her a “spiritually and morally bankrupt person”.

One of the Britons on board the Gaza bound aid flotilla stormed by Israeli commandos has described the moment the convoy was surrounded and attacked.

Yukio Hatoyama, the Japanese prime minister who swept to power last year with a pledge of fundamental change, cost-cutting and a shake-up of the bureaucracy, has resigned after just eight troubled months at the helm.

BP’s long-term credibility was at stake last night as its chief executive fought to halt a headlong slide in its stock price and the Obama Administration announced a criminal investigation into the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.

The international community rounded on Israel yesterday, demanding an independent inquiry into the storming of a convoy of aid ships that ended in the deaths of at least nine people.

DAVID JAMES