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Actor Ewan McGregor and director Andrea Arnold join fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier as members of the jury panel selecting this year's Palme d'Or.

Two people are killed on the M1 when a lorry and a van crash between junctions 13 and 14.

Two suspected tornadoes hit a residential area in Warwickshire and a hamlet in north Essex, uprooting trees and killing 20 chickens.

Barclays sets aside an extra £300m for settling claims of mis-selling payment protection insurance, but says it made an "encouraging" start to 2012.

First Minister Alex Salmond is expected to face questions at Holyrood later over his relations with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

Disgraced politician Bo Xilai ran a wire-tapping system that extended as far as China's president, the New York Times has reported.

Some 40,000 people gather in Oslo to sing a peace song which mass killer Anders Behring Breivik condemned at his trial.

From LS Lowry to depictions of suburbia, an art exhibition is trying to depict the British landscape to Saudis.

Downing Street says there are "no plans" to probe whether the culture secretary broke the ministerial code as the department's top civil servant repeatedly refuses to answer questions about the affair.

Are new shows sending the right message?

At least 70 people are killed in an attack on a house in Hama, Syrian activists say, but the government says 16 died in a blast at an arms factory.

Fifteen people living in a block of flats in Dundee have been rescued after fire broke out in their tenement.

Rangers manager Ally McCoist is disgusted by threats made against the Scottish FA panel that handed a transfer ban to the club.

Non-native plant species are extending the growing season in eastern US forests by an average of four weeks, a study suggests.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has said that it "beggars belief" that Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt is still in his job following revelations at the Leveson inquiry.

The chief executive and chairman of AstraZeneca are both retiring early, encouraged by the non-executive directors, against the background of a sharp fall in first-quarter profits and growing discontent from shareholders.

The proportion of female secondary school head teachers in Wales doubles in eight years to nearly one-third.

Were the dark ages actually a golden age for local democracy?

Can the UK’s local papers survive in a webby world?

Teenager Daryl Harry-Newman says he is upset at having to resort to a food bank, as the BBC's Steph McGovern reports from Knowsley on Merseyside on why more and more people are using the service.