Peers are urged to support a move to let hospitals do more private sector work as plans to overhaul the NHS in England return to the Lords.

Syrian opposition groups say more than 40 people have been killed as the bombardment of the city of Homs continues.

Argentina will make a formal complaint to the UN about British "militarisation" around the disputed Falkland Islands, says President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

Older people needing social care are being let down and "passed like parcels" between fragmented services, a group of MPs says.

US conservative Rick Santorum wins races for the Republican presidential nomination in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, upsetting front-runner Mitt Romney.