UK inflation fell to a five-year low of 1.2% in September from 1.5% the month before, official figures show, making an interest rate rise less likely.

Two people are arrested on suspicion of murdering a 17-year-old boy who died after he was hit outside a shop in Greater Manchester.

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

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.

The impact of the Scottish independence referendum on the future of the UK's constitution is to be debated in the House of Commons.

Nearly 50 people are held after crowds descend on the police station in the Missouri town where the shooting of an unarmed black teenager two months ago sparked riots.