Former Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle from Northern Ireland gives birth to a baby girl.

Many of Tuesday's newspapers focus on flooding, amid reports of cabinet infighting over the government's response and calls to use some aid cash to help homeowners.

British rock band Queen make UK chart history, becoming the first act to sell six million copies of an individual album with their first Greatest Hits collection.

Experts from around the world are gathering in London to discuss the 'global crisis' of the illegal international trade in wildlife.

EU rules must be changed to allow more testing of potentially life-saving cancer drugs on children, says Institute of Cancer Research.

Alpine skier Chemmy Alcott hopes to aid British success at Sochi after "one of the toughest challenges" of her life just to get there

Russian business tycoon Oleg Deripaska explains that he co-funded the Sochi Olympics after spending childhood summers at the resort - but he expects his investment to "pay back".

Yet more severe weather is expected to hit flood-stricken parts of the UK later, as the prime minister continues a tour of the worst-affected areas.