Germany, France and the UK table a UN resolution calling for an end to human rights violations in Syria, and receive the backing of four Arab states.

Three people died and 50 were injured when a fire ripped through a nursing home in Sydney, Australian officials say.

A lunch made up of food that would have been thrown away is to be given away free in London's Trafalgar Square as part of a campaign against waste.

Demi Moore announces "with great sadness" the end of her six-year marriage to Ashton Kutcher, who says he will "forever cherish" their time together.

Plans to change education funding could boost the budgets of some schools, while others see theirs reduced, the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests.

Los Angeles police say they are reopening an inquiry into the death of film star Natalie Wood, who died in mysterious circumstances in 1981.

The US is to send Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Burma next month, in an historic move following years of isolation of the repressive Asian state.

Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters say they have taken over an empty UBS bank office block in east London.