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There is almost universal scepticism in the press in the Middle East as well as further afield about the fragile UN-Arab League-brokered ceasefire in Syria.

Part of a first novel that was lost when a blind woman's pen ran out is salvaged with the help of a forensic police team in Dorset.

Two council workers tell the Kevin "Gerbil" Carroll murder trial about finding guns dumped outside a library in North Lanarkshire.

A controversial Juan Mata goal proves crucial as Chelsea beat Tottenham 5-1 to reach the FA Cup final against Liverpool.

A group of UK-based schoolchildren are the first to get their hands on production models of the bare-bones computer.

Spanish dancer Tamara Rojo is appointed artistic director of the English National Ballet, it is announced.

Do bobbies on the beat really cut crime?

Neptune Collonges wins the Grand National at Aintree in a photo finish from Sunnyhillboy to give Paul Nicholls his first win in the race, but Synchronised and According to Pete suffer fatal injuries.

A man shoots dead a police chief days from retirement and injures four other officers in a drugs raid at a house in a small New Hampshire town.

BBC World's David Eades describes the Sicilian volcano's third eruption in a month. Italian authorities are yet to issue any warning of danger to houses and people in the area.

A Japanese woman who murdered her three former lovers in 2009 is sentenced to death.

A four-year-old girl from Hampshire is accepted into Mensa with an IQ just one point below Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

A data entry error by a helicopter pilot led to two Typhoon aircraft being scrambled, in the belief there was an emergency.

A father who admitted causing the death of his five-year-old son by dangerous driving is jailed for 21 months.

A police force's controversial plans to replace beat bobbies with police community support officers will go to public consultation amid growing criticism.

Apple has released a fresh Java update, designed to remove the Flashback Trojan malware that exposed Macs to a botnet.

Twenty-two ex-AMs who quit or were defeated at last year's Welsh assembly elections were paid more than £800,000 in resettlement grants.

A Tyne and Wear company which builds foundations for wind farms says it is to create up to 1,000 new jobs.

Engineers are battling to save the European Space Agency's flagship Earth observation mission - the eight-tonne Envisat.

A long-list is unveiled of the twenty titles in the running to receive the inaugraul Scottish Album of the Year award.