Striking images of extreme weather conditions - in Europe and America - appear on some front pages, while others focus on crime-related stories.

Actress Monica Spear, who won Miss Venezuela in 2004, has been killed along with her British husband during a roadside robbery in Venezuela.

Government plans to increase spending on state pensions have been criticised as "unaffordable and irresponsible" in a report by a free market think tank.

In a new memoir, former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates lambasts President Obama's handling of the Afghan war.

The rescued Australasian Antarctic Expedition arrives at the Casey research base, just as the ships it left stuck in thick sea ice finally start moving.

Nearly 100 former police and fire personnel are arrested in a sweeping fraud investigation involving federal disability benefits.

Police in Berlin find 140kg (309lb) of cocaine hidden in banana boxes which were sent to a budget supermarket chain in an apparent mistake by traffickers.

The charity Childline says it has seen a large increase in the number of children contacting it with concerns about online bullying.