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Sport Relief returns with stars of sport and screen coming together for a very special weekend.

Five more bodies are found near the wreck of the Costa Concordia, more than two months after the cruise ship capsized off the Italian coast.

BBC Newsnight has evidence that welfare-to-work firm A4e knew of widespread potential fraud and systemic failures by management to control it.

A 76-year-old woman is in a very serious condition after being attacked by four men who forced their way into her home.

A soldier killed in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan on Wednesday is named by the Ministry of Defence as Capt Rupert Bowers.

The BBC psychological crime show Luther been named best drama series at the Royal Television Society awards.

A Florida court hears two British men shot dead last year were found with their shirts off and trousers round their thighs.

Cuba intensifies its harassment of dissidents and human rights activists, according to Amnesty International.

A new project in the north of England is melting down guns and turning them into fashion and art products.

Kidney patients stage a protest against the private company running their dialysis unit after health care assistants were laid-off.

More than 30,000 Roman coins were found by archaeologists working in Bath in 2007, it is revealed.

Police officers in England and Wales are to be balloted on whether they want to be given the right to strike, the Police Federation says.

US President Barack Obama pledges to fast-track federal approval for the southern leg of the much-disputed Keystone XL pipeline project.

Scientists say a gene variation inherited from the grandmother could contribute up to 155g to a child's birthweight.

South African Branden Grace's progress at the Hassan Trophy in Morocco is hampered when he loses his ball in a bunker.

Steve Kean has taken Blackburn from bottom spot at Christmas to five points clear of the relegation zone, but he still divides opinion at Ewood Park.

Public sector workers stage a general strike in Portugal to protest against job cuts and tax rises.

Police across Britain hold 30,000 outstanding arrest warrants, figures supplied to the BBC shows.

Thousands of mourners attend a funeral ceremony in the Belgian town of Leuven, to bury seven more of the 22 children killed in a bus accident last week.

Oil giant BP is given consent to drill a controversial deep-water well - called North Uist - west of Shetland.