Former Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle from Northern Ireland gives birth to a baby girl.

Many of Tuesday's newspapers focus on flooding, amid reports of cabinet infighting over the government's response and calls to use some aid cash to help homeowners.

French President Francois Hollande arrives in the US for a state visit, as he and President Barack Obama tout their "deepening partnership".

China and Taiwan are set for the highest-level talks since 1949, overshadowed by Beijing's decision to block access to some media outlets.

Casey Stoney says she has been "overwhelmed" by the response to speaking publicly about being gay for the first time.

The UK economy is starting to see the right kind of growth, says the CBI, but it warns that uncertainty ahead of the election could be a "mood killer".

A three-year-old girl is diagnosed with polio in Kabul - the Afghan capital's first case of the disease since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

British rock band Queen make UK chart history, becoming the first act to sell six million copies of an individual album with their first Greatest Hits collection.