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Lindsey Hilsum
Visitors to the British Museum can see the magnificent winged bulls taken from Nimrud, in northern Iraq. But Iraqis living there are cowering in terror as their history is annihilated.
Liam Dutton
Where will it be sunniest? How warm will it be? Everything you need to know about this weekend’s weather.
Britain’s main broadcasters say they are sticking to plans for three televised leaders’ debates in the election campaign – a decision the prime minister’s spokesman called “disappointing”.
Anti-Islamisation protesters organised by the Pegida group hold their first UK march in Newcastle, but are confronted by 2,000 counter demonstrators.
This is Horden, County Durham. Once a thriving mining community. Now emptied of jobs, and increasingly of the people who gave it life and soul.
Alex Thomson
The war has come south. The prize? Why, Mariupol, of course, whose steelworks must surely be one of the biggest industrial plants on earth.
Alex Thomson
It has been at the centre of intense fighting between the Ukrainian military and separatist rebels, but now a more human, tragic story is unfolding on the streets of Debaltseve.
Pro-Russian separatists have been accused of breaching Ukraine’s fragile ceasefire. But Moscow says they have done nothing wrong. Who’s right?
The cost of a part-time nursery place for a child under two goes over £6,000 a year for the first time, according to research by the Family and Childcare Trust.
While Labour is tight lipped and ultra-orthodox at present, it is entirely possible to imagine the common ground of a Labour-SNP-Green coalition, or a “supply and confidence” type arrangement.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began his interview with the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen by saying: “We need to talk about facts” – but very little else he said was grounded in reality.
On the 50th anniversary of the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, the reputation of the “greatest Briton” is once again being debated. What were his successes and failures?
Scotland Yard has asked TV stations not to “expose tactics” by broadcasting live images in the middle of a terrorist siege. Are such fears founded? Channel 4 News weighs up the arguments.
Jordan is willing to hand over an Iraqi woman jailed for her role in a 2005 suicide bomb attack if a Jordanian pilot captured by Islamic State is released, a government spokesperson says.
Greece’s deep-seated problems are decades old and normal. What’s abnormal is the chance to blow it all away.