Heavy fighting rocks the strategic Libyan city of Zawiya after rebels repelled an earlier attempt by government forces to seize it.

A 19-year-old man from Germany is arrested after a 14-year-old girl missing from her Dorset home is found in Hampshire.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter says the FA could have retrospectively punished Wayne Rooney for elbowing Wigan's James McCarthy.

Maternity units should offer midwife-led care as the norm rather than the exception, says the King's Fund think tank.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales urges a return to self-sacrifice in Lent, suggesting worshippers forego meat on Fridays.

US aid worker Alan Gross is found guilty of crimes against the state in Cuba over illegal internet connections, Cuban television says.

An Oxford man who went on the run and was convicted of sex trafficking women in his absence is detained.

Detectives investigating the deaths of a couple in Morecambe examine the possibility the man strangled his wife before killing himself.