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Puneet Singh looks at how Indian films are winning over a new generation of Asian fans in Singapore, after Bollywood's own version of the Oscars.

The world's highest battlefield

Golfer Feng Shanshan becomes the first player from China to win a major event after winning the LPGA Championship in the United States.

A rare letter written in English by Napoleon Bonaparte is sold at auction in France for $400,000 - more than five times the expected price.

Tension is high in Burma's western Rakhine state after a state of emergency is imposed following deadly clashes between Buddhists and Muslims.

Every eligible council in England is to take part in a scheme aimed at reducing the problems presented by "troubled families", ministers say.

A record number of calls about child neglect were made to the NSPCC last year, which is a "worrying trend", the charity says.

Kevin Rowland reflects on Dexys' unlikely return

Police in Chile use tear gas and water cannon to try to break up a protest against the screening of a documentary that praises the former military government of General Augusto Pinochet.

NHS chiefs apologised to Gordon Brown after revealing it was "highly likely" staff disclosed details of his son's cystic fibrosis that later appeared in the Sun, he tells the Leveson Inquiry.

Attacks on guide dogs by other dogs have reached a new high of more than eight a month, a charity says.

Labour must move beyond its opposition to austerity and spell out what it would do in power, the GMB union warns ahead of its annual conference.

Labour writes to the UK Statistics Authority to complain at "consistent misrepresentation and misuse" of data by Housing Minister Grant Shapps.

Stocks in Asia and the euro make gains as a eurozone deal to shore up Spain's troubled banks provides a boost to the single currency.

Silicon Valley Bank, the US hi-tech bank with $20bn in assets, opens its first UK branch offering banking and loan services to the UK tech industry.

The M1 in West Yorkshire is closed following sudden torrential downpours leading to flash flooding.

People are taking more risks with their food as finances become tighter, such as ignoring use-by dates, a Food Standards Agency survey suggests.

Doctors will be referred to a new independent tribunal service if they are involved in fitness to practise hearings, as part of reforms by the General Medical Council.

A major survey suggests many employers provide remedial classes for school and college leavers.

The Earl and Countess of Wessex will arrive in Gibraltar later, as part of the territory's celebrations of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.