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Rio's love motels help out with UN conference bed shortage

Bee Gees star Robin Gibb was unable to attend the London premiere of his first classical work because he has pneumonia.

Tests on fish from close to the gas leak platform in the North Sea have shown they are "untainted", the Scottish government says.

A Northern Ireland Assembly committee is to debate whether the tricolour should be flown at Stormont.

Syria will end military operations on Thursday, state TV says, but Damascus reserves the right to respond to attacks by "armed terrorist groups".

The annual number of applications from local councils in England to take children into care has exceeded 10,000 for the first time.

The new Curriculum for Excellence is continuing to cause "anxiety" among teachers, according to research by academics at Stirling University.

A pervasive honey bee pest is being tackled by a research project that try to turn its natural defences against it.

Energy companies will be required to let customers know what their best deal is, in a move which ministers say could save households up to £100 a year.

The number of passengers travelling through BAA's UK airports in March rose by 4% on the previous year, thanks largely to Easter falling earlier in 2012.

Ukraine has delayed the release of a movie about a football match in which a group of Ukrainian players beat a team of occupying Nazi Germans in 1942.

A Scottish government advert is banned for suggesting China had "gifted" two pandas to Edinburgh Zoo.

It could be six months before a judge decides if the case against a Turkish man accused of murdering two County Down women should be transferred from the juvenile court to the adult court.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange and Daiwa Securities Group have received preliminary approval to set up a securities exchange in Burma.

Objectivity is key when Britain's Olympic selectors pick their teams, says BBC athletics expert Steve Cram, especially when there is a wealth of strong candidates

First Minister Carwyn Jones is expected to discuss the possibility of steel giant Tata mining coal when he meets top officials on a visit to India.

The number of students dropping out of universities rises, with one university vice-chancellor blaming the economic downturn.

A 51-year-old man is charged with attempted murder after a four-year-old boy was found with apparent stab wounds in Nottinghamshire.

As passengers on board the Titanic memorial cruise queue to buy memorabilia, one auctionee said the impulse to buy collectors' items was "far from weird".

North Korea says it has begun fuelling its rocket ahead of a widely-criticised planned launch later this week.