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Barack Obama vows that US forces will not "rush for the exits" in Afghanistan, after a soldier is detained accused of murdering 16 civilians.

A 24-year-old serving soldier is arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman in Greater Manchester, police say.

A Texas voter ID law has been rejected by the US justice department, which says that it could discriminate against Hispanic voters.

A letter penned on board the Titanic by a Belfast doctor to his mother is to be brought back to Belfast for an exhibition.

MPs block changes to the Commons code of conduct which would have given the standards watchdog greater powers to investigate their private lives.

Two Palestinians have been killed in a series of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, as cross-border violence continues for a fourth day.

Yahoo sues Facebook over claims that the social network failed to license 10 patents belonging to the web portal.

A 35-year-old man is injured in a gun attack in north Belfast.

Four Turkish journalists accused of involvement in a plot to topple the government are freed by an Istanbul court.

A diet high in red meat can shorten life expectancy, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School.

Right-to-die case is fundamental challenge to the law

Dave Grohl's band will play alongside The Cure, Florence & The Machine and The Black Keys at the August festivals.

Nick Clegg's remark that people who are paying incredibly low rates of tax are "literally in a different galaxy" has highlighted what is arguably one of the most commonly misused words in the English language.

An experiment using homeless people equipped with mobile wi-fi devices as hotspots leads an advertising agency to claim it has been "villainised".

The World Trade Organization upholds most of its ruling that Boeing received illegal subsidies from the US government.

A man is filmed returning a pile of rubbish to the headquarters of a firm he claimed dumped it on his land.

Four more universities are joining the Russell Group of leading universities - Durham, Exeter, Queen Mary, University of London, and York.

Posters that play music via printed circuits formed with conductive ink are being demonstrated at the South By Southwest Show in Texas, USA.

A Canadian class-action lawsuit that could cost three large tobacco companies up to C$27bn (£17.4bn) is set to begin in Montreal.

Learn to play the theremin, one of the world’s oldest electronic instruments, from Lydia Kavina who was taught to play by its inventor, Leon Theremin.