A candidate in Armenia's presidential elections is shot and wounded in the capital Yerevan, in what officials believe was an assassination attempt.

The Wall Street Journal says it has become the second major US newspaper after the New York Times to have been infiltrated by Chinese hackers.

The birds, which are mostly guillemots, have been discovered on beaches from Hampshire to Cornwall.

Aldi becomes the latest supermarket to drop supplier Silvercrest amid the horsemeat row, and also suspends its contract with Dalepak over the issue.

A 14-year-old is taken to hospital after being shot in the back of the head outside a school in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, say police.

The US warns Syria not to transfer weapons to Hezbollah in neighbouring Lebanon, amid an international row over an Israeli strike in Syria.

Non-Muslim women who try the headscarf

Three weeks of French targeted air strikes in northern Mali have left Islamist militants "in disarray", France's defence minister says.

The US Congress extends the nation's borrowing limit until the middle of May, setting the stage for yet another fiscal fight in the spring.

Defence Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel seeks to allay concerns that he is anti-Israel and soft on Iran, as he is questioned at a confirmation hearing.

Phil Mickelson shoots an 11-under-par 60 in the Phoenix Open to miss equalling the PGA Tour record by one shot.

Mark Mardell sees score-settling at the US Senate

Evidence of revenge attacks in Mali after rebels flee

Fighting between Farc rebels and Colombia's government leaves at least nine people dead, as the latest round of peace talks start in Cuba.

Students from the University of Pennsylvania in the US are combining their love of Bollywood and a cappella singing under the catchy name PennMasala

Iran's reported plans to upgrade its uranium enrichment centrifuges would be a "further escalation" in the nuclear stand-off, the US warns.

Tour guides at the Egyptian Museum, located next to Tahrir Square, say the number of visitors has gone down from 5,000 a day before the revolution, to just a couple of hundred now.

The man who admitted creating and killing off a fake online girlfriend in a hoax targeting US football star Manti Te'o says he was in love with him.

Administrators PwC confirm that they have sold the brand of High Street photographic firm Jessops to entrepreneur Peter Jones.

A standoff between Alabama police and a man who has taken a five-year-old boy hostage enters a third day.