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Asean leaders are meeting in Cambodia, with North Korea's planned rocket launch, Burma's by-election and the South China Sea topping the summit agenda.

The wife of war photographer Paul Conroy, who was severely injured in Syria, says he is determined to return.

US President Barack Obama warns that a rejection of his healthcare reform by the US Supreme Court would amount to "judicial activism".

Ten top food safety inspectors based in Olympic venue cities are set to ensure British food is safe for the Olympics.

Mitt Romney aims for a clean sweep in Wisconsin and two other primaries, as President Barack Obama attacks the Republican front-runner.

Sir Paul McCartney's son James on playing the Cavern Club

Up to one-in-four breast cancers detected by screening would never have gone on to be fatal or cause any symptoms, US researchers say.

CIMB says it will acquire most of Royal Bank of Scotland's Asia-Pacific units in a deal worth 431.8m Malaysian ringgit ($141m; £88m).

A cheap medical device can dramatically reduce the number of premature births in some at-risk women, according to a team of doctors in Spain.

A-levels need to be more stretching to prepare pupils for university, suggests research.

Syria has agreed to a 10 April deadline to begin implementing a six-point peace plan.

BBC science editor David Shukman reports on renewed attempts by the UK government to develop ways of making power stations greener.

Russian fire crews have tackled a spectacular fire that engulfed the top of a Moscow skyscraper still under construction.

The European Scrutiny Committee says ministers clearly have reservations about the new EU fiscal pact's legality but have not said what action they plan to take.

Cases of a parent fleeing with their children to a different country are on the rise, a report suggests.

The Scottish Conservatives are launching their council election campaign with a pledge to give more power to communities.

Colombia's leftist Farc rebels have released their last 10 police and military hostages.

Telescopes of the Atcama

The UK economy has shown a few signs of improvement in the first three months of 2012 but is still weak, the British Chambers of Commerce says.

France deports two radical Islamists and says it will expel three more in an apparent response to the killings of seven people by an Islamist gunman in Toulouse.