A passenger train in Kent is derailed when it hits cows that had wandered on to the line.

A man shot dead in a "targeted attack" at a house in Salford is understood to have been local businessman and former mayoral candidate Paul Massey.

The chancellor is making the first of a series of trips to key EU capitals, as the government bids to renegotiate the UK's relationship with the union.

President Obama is in Ethiopia for the second leg of his African tour and is due to hold talks with regional leaders.

Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of the late singer Whitney Houston, has died aged 22, her family says, after several months in a coma.

MI5 has twice been refused warrants for surveillance by the Northern Ireland secretary, the watchdog overseeing the intelligence services says.

David Cameron says business deals worth more than £750m will be made during his tour of South East Asia, as the UK seeks to tap into its "dynamic market".

No contingency plans have been made for a further independence referendum after next year's Holyrood elections, says the Scottish secretary.