South Carolina's Senate passes a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol following the killing of nine black people at a church in June.

A St Paul's Cathedral service and a wreath laying ceremony will take place later to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks that killed 52 people on London's transport network.

A study of people born in the same year has uncovered a huge difference in the speed at which their bodies age.

The use of so-called legal highs has been a factor in at least 19 prisoner deaths, the Prisons Ombudsman says.

Government funding of early intervention programmes for children and young people's services has been cut by £1.8bn over five years, say children's charities.

Hungarian MPs pass legislation to give the government the power to close the borders to all migrants and build a border fence.

Jerry Weintraub - the Hollywood producer of the Karate Kid and Ocean's Eleven films - dies in California aged 77, US media say.

The US-led coalition fighting Islamic State is "intensifying" its campaign against the group's base in northern Syria, President Barack Obama says.