Syria's health system has collapsed after two years of conflict, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says.

Putting an Android phone in a freezer for an hour can help get at its confidential contents, find German security researchers.

Carrefour, Europe's biggest supermarket chain, says the year ahead will be tricky as recessions in Italy and Spain have hit demand.

Carrefour, Europe's biggest supermarket chain, says the year ahead will be tricky as recessions in Italy and Spain have hit demand.

An anti-logging campaigner in Australia who spent 15 months living on a platform high up a eucalyptus tree is forced down by a bushfire.

North Korea vows to exercise its "right to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike" against the US, as the UN prepares to vote on fresh sanctions.

The communications director of the world's oldest bank, Italy's Monte dei Paschi di Siena, is found dead in an apparent suicide.

The communications director of the world's oldest bank, Italy's Monte dei Paschi di Siena, is found dead in an apparent suicide.

Hundreds of jobs are to go at a Warwickshire coal mine hit by an underground fire last month.

A Bolshoi Ballet dancer accused over an attack on artistic director Sergei Filin has told a court he did not mean for him to be splashed with acid.

Welsh pop singer Bonnie Tyler says she is "honoured" to be the UK's representative at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden.

Sausages, ham, bacon and other processed meats appear to increase the risk of dying young, a study of half a million people across Europe suggests.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tells the BBC laws passed in Russia by President Vladimir Putin are an "attack on the rights of citizens".

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tells the BBC laws passed in Russia by President Vladimir Putin are an "attack on the rights of citizens".

Schoolgirl Zoya Anwar, who went missing for more than a week, is found in Birmingham city centre.

India drop veteran opener Virender Sehwag for the two remaining Tests of their series with Australia.

How Canada's religious separatists get away from it all

North America's Hutterites believe that living communally and separately from what they refer to as "the world" will secure them a place in heaven.

Adidas, the world's second-largest sportswear firm, reports a loss for the final quarter of 2012 after writing down the value of its Reebok brand.

Adidas, the world's second-largest sportswear firm, reports a loss for the final quarter of 2012 after writing down the value of its Reebok brand.