Police in east Belfast faced a fourth night of loyalist violence sparked by the decision to limit the days the union flag flies over City Hall.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is visiting wildfire-hit regions in Tasmania, amid warnings of more searing weather across the country.

Journalists at a major Chinese newspaper go on strike in a rare protest against censorship, as supporters demonstrate at their office.

UK new car registrations rose by 5.3% in 2012 to their highest level since 2008, car industry body SMMT says.

BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall pleads not guilty to three charges of indecent assault at Preston Magistrates' Court.

Lib Dem leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he is to take questions each week on London's LBC radio.

It is "impossible" for some of the UK's poorest families to work their way out of poverty because of high childcare costs, children's charity Bernardo's warns.

A mother is jailed for a minimum of 17 years for killing her seven-year-old son in a "ferocious beating" when he failed to memorise passages from the Koran.