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The popularity of songs streamed on services like Spotify will be measured in a new weekly top 100, compiled by the Official Chart Company.

Sir Terry Pratchett and Sue Townsend are among the authors who have been shortlisted for an award celebrating the best comic fiction.

here has been intense shelling by the Syrian army overnight in the city of Homs, as UN monitors in thde city try to implement a ceasefire.

Long queues at Heathrow airport were caused by organisational changes and a lack of planning, an inspector says.

The NHS Confederation is calling for a more joined up strategy, driven at the local rather than national level, to help cut falls by the elderly.

The UK's health system needs "radical change" to cope with the rising number of people with chronic conditions, especially in deprived areas, says a report by medical experts.

Public sector workers are taking part in a 24-hour UK-wide strike over pensions, but the government insists it has made them a "generous offer".

A UN special envoy calls for a halt to the use of firearms on human rights activists in Cambodia after a string of violent incidents.

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China gets the nod to take over a US bank, the first such US approval for a Chinese firm.

Conservationists launch what they call an urgent mission to save the turtle dove from extinction in the UK.

Plans for a new national police force in Scotland are to be endorsed by MSPs, but amid a warning the move could be hindered by civilian job cuts.

Scotland's councils spend almost £40,000 every minute and must do more to make sure they deliver value for money, the spending watchdog says.

Police in Honduras search for journalist Alfredo Villatoro. who was kidnapped only days after another journalist was found dead.

The flame for the London 2012 torch relay and Olympic Games is lit in Olympia, Greece, and briefly goes out.

Lunchtime dance craze catches on among Swedish workers

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage warns that some EU countries face "mass civil unrest, possibly even revolution".

There is no law against publishing Mein Kampf in Germany, but the copyright holders have until now refused permission to do so. The time has come to reissue Hitler's book, argues Jewish leader Stephan J Kramer.

Scientists using X-ray imaging find out some of the secrets of the world's oldest 'computer' - the Antikythera Mechanism.

Nik Wallenda, an acrobat set to walk a tightrope over Niagara Falls this summer, drew gasps after stumbling during walk 100 feet (30m) above Baltimore's Inner Harbour.

The UK has only one entry competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year with Ken Loach's The Angels' Share.