BBC news with Debby Russ.

A centrist party in France, the UDI, has suspended its support for the center-right presidential candidate, Francois Fillon, after he revealed that he is facing a formal investigation into fraud allegations. Mr. Fillon has repeatedly denied allegations that he paid his family public money for work they didn't do.

A U.N. investigation into the battle for the Syrian city of Aleppo last year has concluded that both sides were guilty of war crimes. It says the Syrian Air Force carried out an attack on a U.N. aid convoy, in which 14 people died. Rebels are said to have used civilians as human shields.

Syrian government forces fighting Islamic State militants have reportedly advanced into the edge of Palmyra, the desert city that's home to world famous ancient ruins. The militants first captured Palmyra in 2015, and deliberately destroyed some of the 2000-year-old monuments and towers.

British scientists say they've unearthed fossils of one of the earliest living organisms, which shows that life on earth began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought. The fossils, found in Canada, date back up to 4.3 billion years ago.

The Upper House of the British Parliament has voted to require the government to protect the rights of more than 3 million Europeans in Britain when the country leaves the European Union. It's the first defeat for the government in the passage of a bill to start the leaving process.

A survivor of clerical sex abuse has resigned from a Vatican commission set up to tackle the issue. Marie Collins accused the Vatican bureaucracy of failing to cooperate with the commission's work, saying officials had behaved shamefully.

And the Danish toy company, Lego, has said it's making a new set of figures based on real female scientists, engineers and astronauts. The designer said she hopes the toys would show girls they can be scientists, and boys that these careers are for everyone.

That's the latest BBC News.