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Swedish PM Fredrik Reinfeldt is pressed to clarify a report that his government is helping Saudi Arabia plan an advanced arms factory.

The Choir of Westminster Abbey is to make history after being invited to sing in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.

Voters prepare for Super Tuesday, the biggest and busiest day of the race to choose a Republican candidate to challenge Barack Obama for the US presidency in November.

Two retired Church of England priests are arrested in the Eastbourne area on suspicion of sexually abusing children and young men.

A man who exposed himself to two women and compared his behaviour to models on an adult TV channel, is jailed for 16 weeks.

Syrian state TV has broadcast what it says is footage of trucks and diggers 'cleaning up' debris in the embattled district of Baba Amr.

Skiers at a resort in the Savoie region of France escaped injury when an avalanche plunged down the St Francois Longchamp mountain, at the weekend.

A Saudi Arabian official has been shot dead in an upmarket district of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, police say.

Eighty-four per cent of secondary schools and nearly half of all primary schools are experiencing difficulties with either the quality of their education, budgets or enrolments.

Will Brazil's growth tempt migrants home from London

A knee injury rules out Wales captain Sam Warburton from Saturday's RBS Six Nations game against Italy in Cardiff.

A man burgled his father's home just days before he bludgeoned a widower to death for his Personal Identification Number (Pin), a court hears.

A serious case review into the murder of a Polish teenager in Leeds by a violent sex offender says police and public protection agencies had failed to act effectively.

A 96-year-old woman is dead following an incident believed to have involved a lift shaft at a residential care home in Cardiff.

Brazil has become the sixth-biggest economy in the world, overtaking the UK, the country's finance minister says.

Nissan is to build a new compact model called the Invitation at its Sunderland factory, creating 2,000 new jobs.

At least 42 people have been killed by an avalanche in Afghanistan's remote north-eastern Badakhshan province, officials say.

Civic leaders in eastern Libya declare semi-autonomy for the oil-rich region, saying the area has been neglected for decades.

A fire that killed two workers and destroyed a gas exploration rig off Nigeria's south-east coast goes out after 46 days, US oil and gas firm Chevron says.

Robert B Sherman, who penned songs for Disney classics including Mary Poppins and Winnie the Pooh with his brother Richard M, dies in London aged 86.