Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man, starts his Glasgow 2014 campaign by helping Jamaica reach the men's 4x100m relay final.

An investigation backs the British Medical Journal's handling of two controversial and inaccurate articles it ran on the harms of cholesterol-reducing statins.

Foreign drivers cost councils millions of pounds every year in unpaid parking fines, the Local Government Association says.

The military wing of the Islamist group insists it is not holding a missing Israel soldier and says he could have died in an Israeli air strike.

The Foreign Office says operations at the British embassy in Tripoli are to be temporarily suspended as violence worsens in Libya.

An online campaign for a baby with Down's Syndrome left with his surrogate Thai mother by an Australian couple raises more than £70,000.

An explosion at a factory in eastern China has killed at least 65 people and left scores injured, according to Chinese state media.

Nato needs to rethink its long-term relationship with Russia following its "illegal" actions in Ukraine, Prime Minister David Cameron warns.