Doctors treating Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dispute a claim by a colleague that he has only two years to live, saying that he is uninformed.

Rupert Murdoch tells investors at News Corp's AGM he will clean up his company and says the Milly Dowler phone hacking scandal was "abhorrent".

The Queen meets Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, who played the speech therapist who treated her father King George VI in the film The King's Speech.

Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli escapes unhurt from a firework blaze at his Cheshire home.

A cameraman for the Nigerian state-run television network is killed in northern Nigeria, apparently by Islamist militants Boko Haram.

Tunisians are set to vote in the first free election of the Arab Spring, nine months after the fall of former President Zinedine el Abidine Ben Ali.

A French father's 29-year fight for justice after the death of his daughter ends with her kidnapped stepfather being jailed for killing her.

David Cameron is set to join other European leaders to decide measures to prevent Europe's financial crisis from spiralling out of control.