The Middle East Quartet urges Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace talks within a month, after the Palestinians ask the UN to recognise their state.

Government troops in Yemen attack protesters' tent city in the capital Sanaa, killing at least one person, reports say.

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson sues his ex-employer after it stopped paying his legal fees in relation to the phone-hacking scandal.

The legacy of British plant hunters collecting plants from Japan means that UK gardens have species threatened in their native habitats, a study reports.

Flat-owners' complaints about service charges have risen by 46% in two years to 7,600, figures obtained by the BBC show.

Labour's shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper says the party is proposing to create a specific offence of stalking in England and Wales.

Turkey says it has seized a Syrian ship with weapons, in another sign of rapidly deteriorating relations between the two countries.

Pope Benedict has met German victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and expressed "deep compassion and regret" at their suffering.