The Japanese city of Hiroshima marks the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb by a US warplane, which killed 140,000 people.

Smartphones have edged ahead of laptops for the first time as the preferred devices for connecting online in the UK, a report by Ofcom says.

People travelling in London face a morning rush hour with no Tube service as the latest strike shuts down the network and leads to fears of gridlock.

A quarter of British holidaymakers feel nervous at the thought of having to speak the local language abroad, a poll for the British Council suggests.

Privately educated UK graduates in high status jobs earn more than their state school counterparts, research suggests.

A donor withdrew a £3m offer to Kids Company days before it closed, after finding out Scotland Yard's child abuse unit was investigating the charity.

Australia PM Tony Abbott says the "baffling mystery" of MH370 is closer to being solved, after Malaysia says debris came from the missing flight.

A man is killed by police after attacking cinemagoers with pepper spray and an axe in Nashville, Tennessee.