MPs agree to freeze their £65,738 salaries, blocking a 1% pay rise, after being asked to do so by the government.

The chancellor will announce a tax on private jet flights as part of a crackdown on tax loopholes in the Budget, the BBC understands.

At least 17 people have been injured by a series of Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics say.

Blues pianist Pinetop Perkins, the oldest musicion ever to win a Grammy award, dies in Austin, Texas, aged 97.

The US has condemned Syria's use of "disproportionate force" to suppress demonstrations calling for greater freedom and an end to corruption.

Decades of census data, alongside a mathematical model borrowed from physics, suggest religion is being driven to extinction, researchers say.

The telecoms regulator is to launch consultations on how best to sell off the rights to the next generation of mobile wireless networks.

Efforts resume to restore power and cool damaged reactors at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, despite smoke and steam rising from the plant.