Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State (IS) say they have recaptured a strategically important hilltop west of Kobane on Syria's border with Turkey.

Australian author Richard Flanagan wins the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for his wartime novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

The sister of British hostage John Cantlie, who is being held by Islamic State, makes an appeal for "direct contact" with the militants.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made first public appearance since 3 September, the country's official news agency reports.

Doctors in Britain are "missing opportunities" to spot lung cancer at an early stage, meaning one in three people with the disease dies within 90 days of diagnosis, research suggests.

New arrangements to give savers more freedom over how and when they take a tax-free lump sum from their pension pot are due to be set out.

Shia militias in Iraq have kidnapped and killed scores of Sunni civilians in recent months in apparent revenge for IS attacks, Amnesty International says.

Heathrow airport is to start Ebola screening for passengers flying into the UK from at-risk countries.