Update: 12:10

US to tighten scrutiny of foreign graduate visas
The United States is to vet visa applications from some foreign graduate students applying for postgraduate courses in disciplines that could be put to terrorist uses. A new interagency panel will review up to 2,000 visa applications a year and advise immigration officials who will continue to make final decisions. The aim is to ensure that international scholars do not acquire uniquely available technical and scientific knowledge that may be used in a terrorist attack.

Wisconsin pipe bomber could get 40 years
A University of Wisconsin student charged in connection with a five-day series of pipe bombings that injured six people faces up to 40 years to life in prison.

St Andrews right to award MD degrees reinstated
The deans of Scotland's medical schools and the Scottish Executive have backed draft legislation allowing the Scottish Parliament to restore St Andrews University's right to award MD degrees. The university lost this through a Westminster drafting error almost 40 years ago.

£1.2m technology institute for Ipswich
A university in Suffolk is one step closer after the government gave its backing for a 500-place technology institute in the county. The government has given £1.2 million to the project, which is due to open in Ipswich in October, with the University of East Anglia as the lead institution. It will initially train 200 students in IT, telecommunications, multimedia design and digital arts.