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Jury selection is under way in the trial of John Edwards, a former US presidential candidate, accused of using campaign funds to cover up his pregnant mistress.

Baboons can recognise actual four-letter words - as opposed to scrambled letters - on a computer screen, researchers in France find.

The seven candidates vying to become the capital's mayor

Goldman Sachs is fined $22m (£13.8m) by US regulators to settle charges some "top clients" may have been tipped off about stocks.

A spurned woman who drove her former boyfriend's car into the bowling alley where he worked admits dangerous driving.

The experts' guide to Saturday's big race at Aintree

A mother-of-two has been given a nine month suspended sentence after smashing her ex-boyfriend's car into the bowling alley where he worked.

Former Bill actor Colin Tarrant took his own life after becoming depressed, a coroner rules.

Sir Jackie Stewart fears cancelling the under-threat Bahrain Grand Prix could have a damaging effect on Formula 1.

A shampooing robot, the North Pole wedding proposal and President Obama and a giant bunny. It's the week's weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat's Odd Box, this week with Natalie Jamieson.

The UN is preparing to send monitors to Syria to observe a fragile ceasefire, which has come into force after more than a year of violence.

Egypt's Islamist-controlled parliament passes a law barring former regime officials standing for president, a move rejected by the ruling military council.

Sir Jackie Stewart has said that Formula One should not pull out of the race in Bahrain.

Pakistani MPs vote to reopen Nato's supply routes to Afghanistan, closed after an air raid on a Pakistani border post last year

A loud bang which sparked a deluge of calls to emergency services across a large part of England was a sonic boom from a Typhoon aircraft, the Ministry of Defence says.

A Spanish nun refuses to testify in the first court hearing for alleged theft of newborn babies in the Franco era.

Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas says Mel Gibson shelved a movie about Jewish hero Judah Maccabee because he "hates Jews", but Gibson calls the accusation an "utter fabrication".

Violence has fallen in Syria as a fragile ceasefire takes hold, although both sides are reporting violations.

One of the biggest studies of wind farms' impact on birds suggests they leave many species unaffected, though cause problems to some.

A Democratic strategist apologises for saying Ann Romney, the wife of Republican candidate Mitt Romney, "never worked a day in her life".