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Shooting breaks out during a visit to a Damascus suburb by UN observers, activists say, as the UN prepares plans to expand the mission.

MPs find children are viewing pornography and other unsuitable content online and they want more done to block it.

An Edinburgh man who murdered a colleague after she ended their affair is sentenced to life in prison.

Inflation will fall more slowly than predicted during the rest of this year, according to Paul Tucker, a deputy governor of the Bank of England.

David Gilroy was told he would serve a minimum of 18 years for killing Suzanne Pilley, whose body has never been found.

Twitter plans to put its engineers and designers in charge of how their patents are used.

Police investigating the murder of father of two Simon Tang in Carrickfergus 16 years ago arrest two women in the town.

Teenagers regularly get an average of only six and a half hours of sleep a night.

Brendan Barber, general secretary of union umbrella body the Trades Union Congress (TUC), is to retire at the end of the year.

David Beckham's hopes of playing for Team GB at the 2012 Olympic Games remain on course.

Unemployment rose slightly in the run up to February in Wales, with women bearing the brunt of the increase, say official figures.

A study released exclusively to the BBC claims Team GB is on track for its biggest gold-medal haul in a century at London 2012.

The wives of two UN ambassadors make a video urging Bashar al-Assad's wife Asma to pressure him to end the suppression of Syria's uprising.

Analogue television is switched off in London, 75 years after it was first invented.

The wives of the British and German ambassadors to the UN have released a four-minute video urging President Assad's wife to help end the violence in Syria.

The Today programme's Sanchia Berg reports on the release of secret files from British colonial rule by the Foreign Office.

Another 100,000 people may be moved from the area around China's huge Three Gorges Dam because of landslides and bank collapses, state media say.

World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee says plans to increase internet monitoring should be blocked, without a strong watchdog and rules on storing data.

Europe's biggest brewer sold more beer than had been expected in the first three months of the year, but was hit by higher costs.

Spain threatens retaliation against Argentina over the nationalisation of oil firm YPF, raising the prospects of a trade war.