World News Slovenia offers to host first Trump - Putin meeting Slovenia, the birthplace of America's new first lady, has offered to host the first meeting between her husband, Donald Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. 11/02/2017
Turkey Turkey begins funerals for soldiers killed in Russian airstrike The funerals have begun for the three soldiers who were killed in a Russian airstrike in Syria on Thursday. 10/02/2017
Iran Iran celebrates the 38th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution Iran's President Rouhani warns "newly elected" western leaders that his country is united and will not be cowed by threats on the 38th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. 10/02/2017
France Le Pen sets out stall as the FN climbs to first place in French presidential polls The leader of France's far-right Front Nationale, Marine Le Pen, has been defending her policies as her party moves into the lead in presidential opinion polls. 10/02/2017
Sport Britain gets serious about America's Cup again with new challenger Olympic champion Ben Ainslie has high hopes for a new hi-tech British boat and its chances of winning the America's Cup for the first time. 07/02/2017
Sport Boston throws a giant party for Patriots The New England Patriots have been feted in style by the city of Boston for bringing home the NFL Superbowl championship. 07/02/2017
Sport Schmidhofer sneaks up on big names to take World Championship Super G Austria's Nicole Schmidhofer is the new Women's Super G World Skiing champion as the 2017 championships finally get under way in snowbound St Moritz. 07/02/2017
Sport Grant says goodbye to Ghana and seeks new adventure Avram Grant has quit as manager of Ghana after two years in charge revived Black Stars' fortunes. 07/02/2017
Sport South Africa mourns sad death of Joost van der Westhuizen Joost van der Westhuizen, South Africa's scrum half at the 1995 World Cup, has died aged 45 from motor neurone disease. 06/02/2017
Sport Chelsea crush Arsenal to kill off Gunners' title hopes Chelsea disposed of one of their closest title rivals and won a London derby to boot in their 3-1 win over Arsenal. 06/02/2017
Sport Jacobsen stuns the stars to take King of the Air title Kitesurfing's biggest names had to bow to first-time-winner Nick Jacobsen at Big Bay in South Africa, as he is the new King of the Air. 03/02/2017
Sport England - France to kick off Six Nations tournament Twickenham welcomes the French this weekend as the Grand Slam holders England begin their Six Nations title defence and look towards a record winning run. 03/02/2017
Hungary Orban waits to be on right side of new world order Hungary's Viktor Orban has made a close friend of Vladimir Putin, who is rebuilding the country's nuclear reactor in exchange for Orban's political help in ending sanctions. In the meantime, Orban awa 02/02/2017
World News Australia extends comfort at arms length for refugees Australia does a lot for the boatloads of refugees trying to land on its shores, but mostly abroad in neighbouring countries, where controversial camps have become dead ends for their inmates, plucked 02/02/2017
USA Groundhog Day: a mixture of the profane and pure fun America is to get six more weeks of winter after 2017's Groundhog Day forecast. Thanks a bunch, Phil. 02/02/2017
USA Trump Travel ban nets US Iranians for whom fear is an all-too-recent memory Individuals have been talking about their traumatic experiences at the hands of US immigration since the Trump travel ban came into force. 01/02/2017
France Fillon sinks further under new corruption allegations Illegal undeclared company consultancies on top of allegations of well-paid fake jobs for wife and children threaten to derail France's leading right-wing presidential candidate. 01/02/2017
Sport Shiffrin, Strasser take Stockholm World Cup parallel slaloms Mikaela Shiffrin continued her dominant season winning the Stockholm Parallel Slalom, but there was also a first title for Linus Strasser. 31/01/2017
Sport Kittel wins first stage of UCI Dubai Tour Europe's cyclists are back in action for the UCI Dubai Tour 31/01/2017
Sport Wardian destroys World Marathon Challenge records in epic win Seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. Sounds mad just to attempt, but America's Michael Wardian has taken the prize by winning every single race. 31/01/2017