Greens leader Caroline Lucas attacks the biggest UK parties and urges members to "have confidence", at the party's spring conference in Liverpool.

Greece submits its debt write-down offer to private creditors, a key part of its bailout agreement with the EU and IMF.

Renowned physicist Peter Higgs is honoured by the city which he has called home for half a century.

Two men are arrested as part of the computer-hacking investigation set up by the Metropolitan Police alongside their phone-hacking inquiry.

The Red Cross starts evacuating women and children from part of the besieged Syrian city of Homs after talks with authorities, officials say.

A woman carer who stole more than £100,000 from a bedridden pensioner has been jailed for five years.

Nearly 130,000 people have been displaced by fighting between Tuareg rebels and government forces since mid-January in Mali, the UN warns.