A Chinese version of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake, which took eight years to translate, surprises by selling out its initial print run.

Readers' photographs looking at the theme of ice

Conservative minister Ken Clarke says the case for Britain's membership of the EU must be made "more strongly and coherently".

Australian MP Craig Thomson is arrested on 150 charges of fraud - allegations which he denies.

French forces secure the Malian town of Kidal, paving the way for the next phase in ousting Islamist militants from the vast north of the country.

Musician Nic Jones, whose career appeared to have been ended after a car crash in 1982, has won folk singer of the year at BBC Radio 2's folk awards.

ANA says the grounding of Boeing's Dreamliner led to the cancellation of 459 flights and will lower its revenue by $15m.

A Tibetan monk and his nephew are given long sentences by a Chinese court for inciting self-immolations, Chinese state media reports.

Is UK defence budget safe from more cuts, asks Nick Robinson

BBC Radio 1 will hold its annual free music festival, Big Weekend, in Derry this May.

The government is expected to outline its plans on whether or not to go ahead with the sale of publicly owned forests in England.

Memories of Stalingrad 70 years on

Japan's Honda Motor reports a 63% jump in profits, thanks in part to a recovery in sales in the US market.

Syria's military says Israeli jets carried out an air strike on its territory, but denies reports that a convoy of weapons bound for Lebanon was hit.

The Philippines posts better-than-expected growth boosted by a strong performance of the country's services sector.

At least 18 pilgrims, including five children and eight women, die when their van collides with a bus in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

A coalition pledge to make hospitals share violent crime data with police is being carried out in only a third of areas in England, an audit shows.

Fourteen people plead guilty to "encouraging mass violence" during a high-profile environmental protest in Qidong, Chinese state media say.

Boeing backs the battery used in the Dreamliner after Japanese airlines say they changed a number of them over the past few months.

Why China needs the fuel that chokes its skies