South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis will miss the ICC Champions Trophy because of "personal reasons".

Former Croatia international Ivan Turina, goalkeeper for Swedish club AIK, dies in his sleep at the age of 32.

Viva Forever!, the West End musical based on the music of the Spice Girls, is to close at the end of June following poor ticket sales.

An "uncomfortable" report on behaviour at the BBC finds incidents of sexual harassment are rare, but says bullying is much more prominent.

Investigators in France search caves in the southern Var region for a man suspected of shooting dead his wife and four children in 2011.

BMW reports lower profits for the first quarter of 2013 after the German luxury car company suffers tougher trading in Europe.

Europe's largest oil company Royal Dutch Shell announces that its chief executive will step down in the first half of 2014.

Twelve-year-old Chinese golf prodigy Ye Wocheng cards a 79 as he becomes the youngest ever player on the European Tour.

Millions of Bangladeshi garment workers return to work after days of unrest following the deadly collapse of a factory near the capital, Dhaka.

A small group of British and Irish soldiers has joined a European mission to train local troops in Mali.

Chris Kelly, from the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross, dies in an Atlanta hospital at the age of 34, after being found unresponsive at his home.

North Korea says it has sentenced a US citizen to 15 years of hard labour, amid ongoing tensions with the US.

A British professional poker player is jailed for 20 years in the US for killing his wife, who disappeared in 1997.

Two-time Giro d'Italia winner Ivan Basso withdraws from the three-week race two days before it starts in Naples.

Timelapse footage released by the space agency Nasa shows a solar eruption taking place around the edge of the sun.

Six people, including a young child, are killed in southern Thailand after a gun attack at a village shop, police say.

More than a million people with interest-only mortgages face a financial crunch when they have to pay them off, the regulator warns.

The issue of sexual harassment against women has been in the headlines again in Egypt after derogatory remarks were made to a female reporter by the country's information minister.

An Indian man on death row for spying in Pakistan, Sarabjit Singh, dies after being attacked in a Lahore jail last week, reports say.

A British professional poker player is jailed for 20 years in the US for killing his wife, who disappeared in 1997.