The former chief financial officer of a fashion chain that owned Oasis and Warehouse is arrested on suspicion of murder.

US actor Emile Hirsch, star of Into The Wild, pleads guilty to assaulting a female film executive during the Sundance Film Festival.

An American man famed for dressing up as Batman and visiting sick children in hospital dies after he was hit by a car in Hagerstown, Maryland.

Oil and gas giant Shell has been granted the final permit it needs to begin drilling below the ocean floor for oil in the Arctic.

Ministers are urging people not to be put off by failures of the flu vaccine last year and get immunised this autumn.

Rail fares have risen nearly three times faster than wages over the past five years, new analysis suggests.

Iran wants to work with regional powers to promote peace and security after last month's nuclear deal, Vice-President Masumeh Ebtekar tells the BBC.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces he is dissolving parliament and calling a parliamentary election for 19 October.