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The UN and Arab League peace envoy, Kofi Annan, arrives in Beijing to seek China's support for his Syria peace initiative, as violence continues.

Sixteen people are arrested near the Afghan ministry of defence and suicide jackets seized, after the authorities foil an apparent suicide attack.

Footage has been released from Hollywood director James Cameron's trip 11km (seven miles) down to the deepest place in the ocean, the Mariana Trench.

One man is taken to hospital with minor burns after an incident at the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot.

Greater Manchester Police name a man whose body was found in a wheelie bin in a field near Wigan.

Only around a third of dentists in Wales are accepting new NHS patients, claims the Welsh Liberal Democrats, who warn the service is still facing considerable problems.

About three quarters of the jobs promoted by Invest NI translate into actual jobs on the ground, according to Invest NI.

A committee of MPs says it is disappointed at the lack of progress on new measures to tackle fuel fraud in Northern Ireland.

The papers agree there was chaos at Number 10 over the U-turn on dinner guests

The German authorities are trying to track down far-right fugitives following revelations that three neo-nazis were apparently able to carry out a decade-long spree of racially motivated murders.

Pope Benedict XVI has begun a three-day visit to Cuba - the first papal visit to the communist-run island for 14 years.

Community sentences for offenders in England and Wales are to be changed to ensure they are "tough and credible", ministers will say later.

Parliament should not introduce a new privacy law, even in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World, a report says.

Apple indicates it will consider higher investments in China as chief executive Tim Cook visits Beijing to meet Chinese officials.

In the age of hyper-connected, always on smartphones, love is often found in unlikely places - and always when we least expect it.

World leaders call for closer co-operation to tackle the threat of nuclear terrorism at a summit on nuclear security in Seoul.

The elderly are being passed around hospitals in England like parcels, often going without treatment because of ageist attitudes, a report suggests.

Two former British prime ministers are to be honoured with memorial stones at Westminster Abbey.

Amnesty International says there was an "alarming" surge in the number of executions being carried out in a small number of countries last year.

Business and conservation groups should be able to "unite behind" revised planning rules for England, says Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.