Finding a Joint Approach to Combat Tax Evasion

The world's richest countries are meeting in Paris today to try to agree a joint approach to combat tax evasion in the wake of the Panama Papers.

A further round of negotiations to end Syria's civil war gets underway today, but there's little sign that President Assad is considering standing down -- he's holding parliamentary elections in the parts of the country under his control.

The world-renowned British theoretical physicist, Professor Stephen Hawking is backing a project to send spaceships to another solar system within a generation.