Plans to introduce minimum drink pricing will brought back if the SNP wins May's Holyrood election.

US internet project worker Alan Gross is sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes against the state in Cuba.

Millions of people are still without power and water in northern Japan.

Nick Clegg will resist calls to attack the Tories in his keynote speech to his party's spring conference, insisting the Lib Dems are governing "from the middle for the middle".

A painting bought for £65 in 1964 sells for $132,000 (£82,000) in Australia after being found in a Suffolk cottage.

Israel approves the construction of hundreds of homes for Jewish settlers in the West Bank, after the murder of five members of a settler family.

The BBC's Alastair Leithead has visited the small port of Minamisanriku, where around 10,000 people are unaccounted for.

About 170,000 people have been evacuated from the area around a quake-damaged nuclear plant in north-east Japan that was hit by an explosion, the UN atomic watchdog says.