Russia's ruling party is expected to elect the Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as its new leader at a congress to be held in Moscow.

Cricketer Graeme Swann on pressure... and his singing skills

Thousands of UK websites are expected to be in breach of a law that dictates what they can log about visitors.

The Home Office draws up contingency plans to cope with a possible large increase in immigration from Greece if the euro collapses.

The ten most popular areas for young Scottish professionals to buy property are all in major cities, according to the Bank of Scotland.

BBC Scotland publishes further evidence about a suspected conflict of interest concerning the administrators of Rangers.

The man held over the 1979 vanishing of six-year-old Etan Patz in New York is charged with one count of second-degree murder.

Diamond jubilee street parties uniting neighbourhoods

At least 50 people, including 13 children, are killed in a town in Syria's restive province of Homs, opposition activists say, calling it a "massacre".

IMF head Christine Lagarde urges Greeks to pay taxes, saying she worried more about the plight of sub-Saharan Africa than the crisis-hit European nation.

Protest have been held across Honduras demanding an end to a series of murders of journalists, amid accusations that criminals enjoy impunity.

The bloodshed in Syria has spilled over the border into neighbouring Lebanon, fuelling fears of a return to the sectarian violence seen the past.

A woman passenger in a car has died and two other people are seriously injured following a crash involving two cars near the lake in Bala, Gwynedd.

A large wild fire breaks out on Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides and is threatening two cottages on the north west of the island.

One of the final opinion polls ahead of Ireland's referendum next week on whether to ratify the EU Fiscal Treaty suggests it is likely to be a 'yes' vote.

The Olympic flame has arrived in the Welsh capital Cardiff on day one of its tour of Wales.

Apple's boss, Tim Cook, turns down a payout worth about $75m (£48m) that he was due from the technology giant's upcoming dividend.

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood calls allies to back its presidential candidate in a likely run-off against Hosni Mubarak's last PM to "save" the uprising.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has vetoed some of the articles in the controversial forest code, which environmentalists say could speed up deforestation.

Spain's fourth-largest bank, Bankia, asks for a bailout worth 19bns euros ($24bn; £15bn), and admits that it made a massive loss last year.