Chelsea host FC Copenhagen looking to defend a 2-0 first-leg lead while Lyon travel to Real Madrid with the match delicately poised at 1-1 in the last of the Champions League last-16 encounters.

In the Scottish Cup, Inverness CT take on Celtic and Aberdeen play St Mirren, while Dundee United host Hearts in the Scottish Premier League.

Increasing alarm is expressed in the US about the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, with warnings of "potentially lethal" radiation doses at the facility.

A woman is found guilty of forcing a Tanzanian woman to work at her north-west London home as a slave for four years.

Prince Philip has visited the restoration of the Cutty Sark, which was devastated in a blaze four years ago.

The FA gives Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson a five-match touchline ban for his comments about referee Martin Atkinson.

England skipper Mike Tindall is ruled out of Saturday's Grand Slam showdown against Ireland in Dublin, BBC Sport understands.

The governor of the region at the centre of Japan's nuclear crisis bitterly criticises official handling of the evacuation, as engineers race to avert a catastrophe.