Muslims in the UK could be left fasting for 19 hours a day, as the holy month of Ramadan coincides with the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere.

A 101-year-old man - believed to be the oldest defendant in British legal history - denies 31 child sex abuse charges.

Civilians fleeing Falluja, the Iraqi stronghold of the so-called Islamic State (IS), are being shot as they leave, an aid agency says.

Anxiety disorders need more research, says a global review of scientific studies which found women were twice as likely to be affected as men.

The first major trial to see whether losing weight reduces the risk of cancers coming back is about to start in the US and Canada.

Some of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's social media accounts appear to have fallen victim to hackers.

Veteran US photojournalist David Gilkey and his translator are killed in a Taliban ambush in southern Afghanistan.

Five people, three of them Jordanian intelligence officers, are killed in an attack at a Palestinian refugee camp near the capital, Amman.