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Strong winds and heavy rain have brought down trees and power lines across England and Wales, with warnings of more heavy rain to come.

Seven people, including three children, have been killed after their car fell more than 50 feet into the grounds of the Bronx Zoo in New York.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to file a complaint against a website that claimed Libya's Col Gaddafi offered to fund his 2007 election campaign.

A lorry driver who drove a fuel tanker loaded with 2,000 litres of kerosene into the front of his family home in Dorset is jailed for seven years.

Former Libyan oil minister Shukri Ghanem died by drowning, according to preliminary post-mortem results in Austria.

William Hague announces £1.5m extra for the UK Foreign Office's human rights work, focusing on projects to promote freedom of expression online.

China has moved a step closer to completing its own navigation and positioning satellite network Beidou with the launch of two more navigation satellites.

Aung San Suu Kyi says she will take the Burmese parliamentary oath despite disputing the wording of it, as the UN's Ban Ki-moon urges political engagement.

The BBC begins its Olympics marketing campaign with a 60-second torch relay trail.

Troops loyal to Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court, take control of two towns near Goma in eastern DR Congo after fierce fighting.

Four men arrested in Luton, Bedfordshire, last week are charged with a number of terrorism offences.

24 hours of news photos: 30 April 2012

MI6 officer Gareth Williams possibly died from poisoning or asphyxiation, a Home Office pathologist tells an inquest into the death.

A witness in the trial of Moray man Nat Fraser who is accused of murdering his wife 14 years ago admits lying to police.

A 39 year old county Londonderry man, Stephen Cahoon, has been found guilty of the murder of a woman pregnant with his child.

A scientist who advises on the control of bovine TB resigns over the Welsh government's reversal of a planned badger cull.

Is Occupy becoming an art movement?

Three days after Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng escaped from house arrest, the US refuses to comment on claims he is at its Beijing embassy.

Australia lists the koala as a threatened species in parts of the country due to its dwindling population, officials say.

A Welsh health board becomes the first NHS body to be fined for a data protection breach after it released sensitive data about a patient to the wrong person.