US insurance giant AIG reports a big increase in fourth-quarter profit, thanks to a $17.7bn (£11.2bn) tax benefit.

Eric Joyce, the Labour MP for Falkirk, is charged with three counts of common assault following a disturbance at a House of Commons bar.

A court hearing into the 1980 disappearance of baby Azaria Chamberlain, whose parents claim she was killed by a dingo, is to re-open in Australia.

Tunisia is set to host a major conference to seek a breakthrough in Syria, with fresh pressure on Damascus to allow humanitarian access.

A quarter of a million more people aged in their late 50s and early 60s are now working unpaid overtime than were a decade ago, a report says.

More must be done by government to help prevent young refugees and asylum seekers from falling into destitution, a children's charity warns.

David Cameron says attacks on wealth creators are motivated by "snobbery", as Labour accuses him of "inconsistent" messages on the subject.

World leaders pledge support for political and military measures to fight Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab, after a conference in London.