Newspaper editors are to meet later to try and agree on a new press watchdog, independent of publishers and politicians, following the Leveson report.

A strike at the port of Los Angeles enters a seventh day, disrupting the busiest shipping complex in the US.

Self-harming is the fastest rising cause of calls for help to the ChildLine advice line, according to the charity's annual report.

Birds are keeping their nests warm and pest-free by lining them with cigarette butts, St Andrews University research suggests.

An alien painted on to a give way sign near a Devon village is condemned as "criminal damage" by the county council.

The chancellor approves the building of more than 30 new gas-fired power stations to replace the UK's ageing coal, nuclear and gas stations.

The Irish government announces a package of fresh austerity measures, including a new property tax, worth billions of euros in its 2013 budget.

A mother who beat her son "like a dog" when he failed to memorise passages of the Koran is found guilty of his murder at Cardiff Crown Court.