A man on trial for the murder of a hotel landlady is found dead at a Hull Prison.

Beleaguered Australian PM Tony Abbott faces a challenge to his leadership after Liberal MPs initiate a party vote next week.

French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold talks in Russia to try to end renewed fighting in east Ukraine.

Police have spent about £10m providing a 24-hour guard at the Ecuadorean embassy in London since Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claimed asylum there.

Budget retailer Poundland agrees to buy 99p Stores for £55m, subject to approval by competition authorities.

Black box data from the TransAsia Airlines turbo-prop plane that crashed in Taiwan shows that power was cut to both engines, investigators say.

Waiting times in A&E units in England have worsened slightly, latest figures shows.

UK agency GCHQ was not open enough on how it shared intelligence gathered by US mass internet surveillance, a tribunal rules.