Lee Majors, star of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Fall Guy, will guest star in the next series of Dallas.

The Food Standards Agency will meet suppliers and retailers later to work out how to prevent contaminated food entering the supply chain.

Kurdish rebel leader Ocalan holds key to peace

French warplanes carry out air strikes in Mali's far north as they try to secure the final rebel stronghold of Kidal after a three-week offensive.

The Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director Sergei Filin, injured in an acid attack last month, leaves hospital for further treatment in Germany.

The cost of cleaning up the Sellafield nuclear site has reached £67.5bn, with no indication of when the cost will stop rising, according to a report.

Unemployment in Spain now stands at a staggering 26% with no signs of falling.

At least eight people are killed and dozens wounded after a tour bus collides with other vehicles on a mountain road in southern California.

Japan Airlines raises its full-year profit forecast despite a decline in earnings for the first three quarters and the grounding of its Dreamliner fleet.

South Korea begins three days of joint naval exercises with the US, in a show of strength as the North threatens to carry out a nuclear test.

Chris Kyle, a former US Navy seal and Iraq veteran known as the deadliest sniper in US history, is shot dead on a Texas shooting range, police say.

The US space agency's Curiosity Mars rover uses its drill for the first time, hammering down briefly into a flat slab of rock on the floor of Gale Crater.

Lisa Sinjab looks at the daily life for the residents of Homs - a city which has seen some of the most ferocious fighting of the Syrian conflict.

Cuba's former leader, Fidel Castro, has voted in Cuba's parliamentary elections - the first time the frail ex-leader has been seen in public for several months.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sues credit card company Visa for alleged misuse of market power.

At least 500 people have been left homeless after a fire swept through a slum in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka.

Fidel Castro has voted in Cuba's parliamentary elections, the first time the frail ex-leader has been seen in public for several months.

Jacoby Jones stars as Baltimore beat San Francisco 34-31, and survive a power cut, in an epic Super Bowl.

At least 13,000 premature deaths from cancer could be prevented each year in the UK, says the World Cancer Research Fund.

A safety limit on volume levels which comes into force on all new personal music players this month could be ignored by 40% of young people, says a hearing loss charity.