Heavy fighting rocks the strategic Libyan city of Zawiya after rebels repelled an earlier attempt by government forces to seize it.

A 19-year-old man from Germany is arrested after a 14-year-old girl missing from her Dorset home is found in Hampshire.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter says the FA could have retrospectively punished Wayne Rooney for elbowing Wigan's James McCarthy.

Alberto Granado, the travel companion of Ernesto Che Guevara made famous in The Motorcycle Diaries, dies in Cuba at the age of 88.

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage says his party aims to replace the Liberal Democrats as the third force in British politics.

George Michael tells BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans it was "karma" that he was sent to prison for driving under the influence of drugs.

Maternity units should offer midwife-led care as the norm rather than the exception, says the King's Fund think tank.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales urges a return to self-sacrifice in Lent, suggesting worshippers forego meat on Fridays.