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The Somali National Theatre reopens in Mogadishu more than two decades after it was closed amid civil war.

The Bang Goes The Theory team monitor sound levels from some of the quietest creatures on our planet.

Russia calls for daily humanitarian ceasefires in Syria to allow aid into the areas worst affected by fighting, following a meeting with the Red Cross.

Tens of thousands of Iraqi Shias hold a large rally in the southern city of Basra demanding better living conditions.

Will a Chinese tea grown using panda poo as fertiliser prove to be a delicacy, or publicity stunt?

Ten French politicians have been confirmed as candidates in the 2012 presidential election, one of the most closely fought in decades.

Former Fifa president and IOC member Joao Havelange, aged 95, is in hospital with a serious infection, a Brazilian hospital says.

Two men convicted of organised crime offences in West Lothian, including intimidation and extortion, are jailed.

Mobile applications which are supported by third-party advertising services typically use more battery power, a study suggests.

Iran's best foreign language film winner A Separation collects four prizes at the Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong.

Have you prayed for Fabrice Muamba and could it work?

A man is jailed for life after admitting beheading a restaurant manager at a golf club in Oxfordshire.

Four people shot dead at a Jewish school

Students in the US state of Florida rally to demand the arrest of a community watch volunteer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager.

A Zimbabwean court convicts six activists of inciting public violence for discussing the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.

Five foreign tourists die and one is in hospital after an avalanche hits a group of skiers in northern Norway, police say.

A man is arrested on suspicion of murdering a man who was stabbed to death at the Norwich home of former boxing world heavyweight champion Herbie Hide.

The government's planned changes to the NHS in England have cleared their final reading in the House of Lords.

The ancient Celtic side of Navan Fort outside Armagh is closed in a security alert.

Cuba frees all of the approximately 70 members of the Ladies in White dissident group who were held ahead of a visit by the Pope, dissident sources say.