Voters across the UK are going to the polls in a series of national and local elections as well as a referendum to decide the way MPs are elected.

A Syrian rights group accuses President Assad’s regime of carrying out “ten days of massacres” against protesters in the southern city of Deraa.

A man accused of killing Jo Yeates, whose body was found near Bristol on Christmas Day, admits her manslaughter but denies murder.

The deaths of two prisoners at Belfast’s Hydebank Young Offenders Centre are to be the subject of three separate investigations.

Foreign Secretary William Hague says the world is determined to intensify military pressure on Libya’s Col Muammar Gaddafi.

Workers enter a reactor building at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant for the first time since the 11 March quake, to install ventilation equipment.