About two million people have packed Brazil's Copacabana Beach for the last evening of World Youth Day with Pope Francis, organisers say.

British soldiers have returned to an area of southern Afghanistan for a week-long operation, led by Afghan forces, against Taliban insurgents.

Huge crowds gather for a memorial service in the Canadian town of Lac Megantic, three weeks after a train disaster killed 47 people.

Italian politicians react with anger after the country's first black minister has bananas thrown at her during a political speech.

About 1,200 inmates escape from a jail in the restive Libyan city of Benghazi - a day after the killing of a local activist triggered unrest.

Home Secretary Theresa May reveals she has been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, but insists it will not affect her political career.

Official migration figures are little better than "a best guess" and are not fit for purpose, an influential committee of MPs argues.

Police start a murder investigation after a man is stabbed to death at a carnival in Gloucester Park