Rounding up all the news

MONDAY Heather Mills was awarded £24.3 million in her divorce settlement with estranged husband Sir Paul McCartney. Speaking outside London's High Court, Mills said she was "glad it's over" and "it was an incredible result to secure mine and my daughter's future". A teenage killer who ordered a "hit" from prison then listened to the machete victim's screams on a phone was jailed for almost four years. James Demarco, 18, told attacker James Paxton to stab the target because he had gone out with a former girlfriend. Coca plantations and a fully-equipped laboratory for making cocaine were found for the first time in a Brazilian part of the Amazon rainforest. The mother of a girl whose party was gatecrashed by up to 2000 revellers after a "shout out" on Radio 1 urged the BBC to review its policy. Youngsters caused damage estimated at thousands of pounds to the Brooks family's grade-II listed mansion outside Dartmoor, Devon.

TUESDAY British film director and writer Anthony Minghella died aged 54. He suffered a haemorrhage in London days after having surgery for cancer of the tonsils and neck, his US agent Leslee Dart said. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao accused the Dalai Lama of masterminding demonstrations against Chinese rule in Tibet's capital, Lhasa. Wen said the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's claim of "cultural genocide" was "nothing but lies". London Mayor Ken Livingstone launched his campaign for re-election, promising better transport, more affordable housing and more police. The main challengers to the Labour mayor are Conservative Boris Johnson and Liberal Democrat Brian Paddick. East Fife criticised police for banning them from drinking champagne to celebrate a title win. The bottles were produced at East Stirlingshire's Firs Park after East Fife moved to an unassailable 24-point lead in the Scottish Third Division.

WEDNESDAY Simon Cowell paid off a US couple's mortgage to help them look after their seriously ill daughter. He promised to be three-year-old Madelaine Stoen's "guardian angel" after being shown footage of the family on Oprah Winfrey's US TV chat show. Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry, main image, named her newborn daughter Nahla Ariela Aubry. British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke died in his adopted home of Sri Lanka at the age of 90. Safety officials condemned a video of a man being swung around at speed while hanging from a digger at an offshore supply yard in Peterhead. The clip emerged on video sharing site YouTube. Overthrowing Saddam Hussein was "the right decision", US President George W Bush said in a speech to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. He also said the world was a better place because the US had acted. Quantum Of Solace, the next James Bond film, is to be released earlier than expected on October 31, producers announced.

THURSDAY In a new audio message purportedly from Osama Bin Laden, top right, the al-Qaeda leader threatened the EU over the re-printing of a cartoon offensive to Muslims. The Foreign Office said older British holidaymakers are causing trouble normally associated with the younger generation. Over-55s are endangering their health by drinking too much alcohol and trying sports such as bungee jumping. Paul Scofield, one of Britain's most acclaimed Shakespearean actors and an Academy Award winner, died at the age of 86. Police in Mexico came across a new weapon being used by the country's drug cartels: a James Bond-style vehicle complete with gadgets designed to deter arrest. The car was abandoned by gang members after a shoot-out. US presidential hopeful John McCain said nations with "common values" must work together on issues such as climate change, after talks with Gordon Brown.

FRIDAY Conservative leader David Cameron apologised after being photographed ignoring red lights and cycling the wrong way up a one-way street. Doctors in Glasgow began treating Scotland's first diagnosed case of the drug-resistant XDR tuberculosis strain. The patient was reported to have come to the UK from Somalia and was moved into isolation at Gartnavel General Hospital. Belgian writer, poet and artist Hugo Claus ended his life by euthanasia at the age of 78, his wife said. He suffered from Alzheimer's and had "picked the moment of his death", Veerle De Wit added. Gadzhi Abashilov, the head of a state TV station in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, was shot dead. The US state department said passport files of the three presidential candidates were improperly accessed. An employee looked at the files of Republican John McCain and Democrat candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

SATURDAY Pamela Anderson and her husband began proceedings to end their marriage, the ex-Baywatch star's third. Violent gang members in Glasgow were warned they are being targeted in a long-term police crackdown after early morning raids in Drumchapel. The government was facing mounting dissent over controversial embryo laws after the Archbishop of Cardiff joined calls for a free vote on the legislation. The Most Reverend Peter Smith advised MPs to vote against a bill that allows the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research. A British woman on an extended holiday in Jamaica was found murdered. Police on the Caribbean island said the body of Barbara Scott-Jones, 61, was found in a pit near the house she was staying at in the north-west of the island. A woman has sued the company behind Oprah Winfrey's TV chat show, claiming she was injured when audience members rushed to find seats at a recording.