Andrew Hosken

Image caption Col Gaddafi's wife, two of his sons and his daughter are said to be in Algeria The wife and three children of fugitive Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are in Algeria, Algerian officials say. A foreign ministry statement said Col Gaddafi's wife Safia, daughter Aisha and sons Muhammad and Hannibal left Libya early on Monday. Algeria's UN ambassador said they were received on humanitarian grounds. Meanwhile rebels said they had uncovered four mass graves in recent days.

How are the mighty fallen, and what’s more, how quickly! One day Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine, could stride around his huge estate admiring the wonderful views across the Dnieper, his fantastic car collection and his motley collection of emus and ostriches. Now here was I, cycling around the place, as free as a bird, while he had done a runner across the Russian border. Sic semper tyrannis. The path from hero to zero for the Yanukovyches of this world is fairly well-trodden.

Image caption Corporal James Ross died an accidental death in December 2012, an inquest found The British Army has rejected calls for mandatory mental health screening for serving soldiers, the BBC has learned. Regular screening was recommended by a coroner following an inquest into the deaths of two infantrymen found hanged in the same Northern Ireland barracks. But in a leaked letter, Gen Sir Nick Carter, head of the armed forces, said screening was "potentially harmful".