Vulnerable children across the UK are likely to have lost out because of ministers' "special treatment" of failed charity Kids Company", says a group of MPs.

A reputed mobster is acquitted of planning a brazen 1978 airport heist that helped to inspire the Mafia film Goodfellas.

Bulgarian authorities are accused of brutality towards migrants in a new report sponsored by the British charity Oxfam.

All police officers in England and Wales could have to be educated to degree level in the future, under plans proposed by the College of Policing.

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy wins a majority in Myanmar's historic election, ending decades of military-backed rule.

Militants from so-called Islamic State say they were behind two suicide bomb attacks in the Lebanese capital Beirut which killed at least 41 people.

Kurdish forces say they have entered the IS-controlled northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, as Iraqi forces say they are attacking IS-held Ramadi.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at Wembley Stadium to addresses a crowd of about 60,000 people on the second day of his visit to the UK.