US character actor James Rebhorn, who had a five-decade career in TV, film and on stage, dies at the age of 65 after a long battle with skin cancer.

A ceremony to commemorate the Great Escape, the famous breakout from German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III in 1944, is due to take place later.

Japan's Shinzo Abe visits Amsterdam's Anne Frank House museum, weeks after 300 copies of her famous diary were vandalised in Tokyo.

A Chinese plane spots possible debris hours after it joined the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean.

Russian troops seize control of a Crimean naval base at Feodosia, the third such attack in 48 hours, Ukrainian officials tell the BBC.

A British man and a New Zealander are killed after the light aircraft they were flying crashes in New Zealand, police say.

China's manufacturing sector showed further contraction in March, according to a new report which mainly tracks activity in smaller factories.

There is a direct link between how physically active mothers are and how active their young children are, suggests a UK study.