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The BBC understands that the Regional Development Minister Danny Kennedy will stand for the UUP leadership.

A Premier League footballer accused of damaging cars in Newcastle city centre has the case against him dropped.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the circumstances are not yet right for German troops to leave Afghanistan in 2014.

The number of people killed in the latest of a series of cattle raids and ethnic clashes in South Sudan rises to more than 200, officials tell the BBC.

Disney's science fiction film John Carter takes $30m at the US box office and fails to take pole position, falling behind its reported budget of $250m.

A beach in Australia had to be closed as a precaution, after dozens of sharks were seen feeding on fish.

The brother of former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie appears in court charged with her murder.

Seven water companies across southern and eastern England are to impose hosepipe bans from 5 April amid drought conditions, it is announced.

The personal details of more than 73,000 users of porn site Digital Playground have been stolen by hackers.

Bradley Wiggins has all the ingredients to win the 2012 Tour de France, three-time prologue winner Chris Boardman tells BBC Sport.

A public toilet is being built at a cost of £50,000 on a tiny island that is uninhabited for six months a year.

Afghans have run out of patience with foreign troops, the country's MPs warn, after a US soldier kills 16 civilians, sparking reprisal fears.

A paralysed man who wants a doctor to be able to lawfully end his life can proceed with his "right-to-die" case, a High Court judge rules.

Enhanced CCTV, a telephone hotline and a tannoy public address system could be set up on a Belfast footbridge where a young man fell to his death.

EastEnders actor Steve McFadden accepts undisclosed damages in the High Court after suing the publisher of the News of the World for libel.

Sizing Europe bids for a second straight win in the Queen Mother Champion Chase on day two of the Cheltenham Festival.

One man is killed and three others are injured, one of them a boy of eight, when they are hit by a car in Bedfordshire.

Hundreds of people from the worlds of politics, the law and sport attend the funeral of leading Scots QC Paul McBride.

The death is announced of Sherwood Rowland - the US chemistry professor who first suspected that the Earth's ozone layer was being depleted by man-made chemicals.

The eurozone group has backed Greece's second bailout of 130bn euros pending a contribution from the IMF, after last week's private debt swap.