Syria Ceasefire 'Holding' on First Day

The cessation of hostilities in Syria that came into effect at sunset on Monday appears to be holding, reports suggest. The deal, brokered by Russia and the US, has been described by US Secretary of State John Kerry as possibly the "last chance to save a united Syria".

Hillary Clinton has said in a telephone interview that she is feeling "so much better", a day after being taken ill at a 9/11 commemoration. She also said that she had not disclosed a recent pneumonia diagnosis because "I just didn't think it was going to be that big a deal".

The long-lost ship of British polar explorer Sir John Franklin, HMS Terror, has been found in pristine condition at the bottom of an Arctic bay, researchers have said, in a discovery that challenges the accepted history behind one of polar exploration's deepest mysteries.