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US shares see their biggest daily jump this year on hopes of a rescue for Spain's banks and a Fed survey suggesting the US economy is picking up.

At least 86 people including women and children are killed by Syrian government forces near the city of Hama, activists say - but Damascus blames "terrorists".

Facing "payback time" at the ballot box

Is Vietnam's revolutionary leader still relevant today?

In the Russian Arctic north lies buried a disused railway built by prisoners of Joseph Stalin's gulags and never used - but it could now be revived.

The number of suspected cases in the Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Edinburgh rises by a further 10, taking the total to 61.

What does it take to run the US's oldest family firm?

The Bank of England once again leaves UK interest rates unchanged at 0.5% and announces no expansion to its quantitative easing programme.

Italian police arrest a man in connection to the bombing of a school in Brindisi last month, in which a 16-year-old girl was killed, local media says.

Spain's credit rating has been downgraded as estimates on the size of the bailout it needs begin to mount up.

Richard Westcott looks at how authorities will deal with all the people flying into London for next month's Olympics.

Facebook shareholders are offered $40m by the Nasdaq stock exchange for a hitch that stopped them trading on debut day.

Seventeen militants and at least two soldiers are killed in clashes in southern Yemen, as the army tries to regain territory lost last year.

The widower of Michaela McAreavey has told the trial of two men accused of murdering her that on the day she was killed, his "life ended as well".

Human rights groups warn that a Palestinian footballer who has been on hunger strike for 80 days in an Israeli jail faces imminent danger of death.

The White House downplays a Republican win in Wisconsin's recall election, but the victor calls the state "competitive" ahead of November's election.

Andy Murray says he needs to work on his fitness levels before Wimbledon after going out of the French Open to David Ferrer.

Aviation fuel is being sent to Manchester Airport after it ran out of supplies, according to the suppliers.

Author Ray Bradbury has died in Los Angeles at the age of 91.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration arrests 33 people at Puerto Rico's main international airport, suspected of smuggling drugs to the US mainland.