The British public's response to the refugee crisis has been "extraordinary" and "so supportive", charities say.

The case for improving hospital care at weekends is "simply unassailable", medical chiefs say, as new figures on death rates are published.

US Secretary of State John Kerry voices concern to Moscow amid reports of a Russian military build-up in Syria in support of President Assad's forces.

Six people, including a pregnant woman, are killed after a car veers off the road during a car rally in north-western Spain.

The UK will cross a "legal and ethical Rubicon" if the law on assisted suicide in England and Wales is changed, the Archbishop of Canterbury says.

Police forces in England and Wales should work together more when buying equipment in order to cut the £1.7bn they spend each year, the government says.

Britain's Andy Murray makes swift progress into the US Open fourth round, sweeping past Thomaz Bellucci in straight sets.

A man in Argentina is charged with unlawful imprisonment after allegedly keeping his wife and son locked up for several years in a filthy dungeon.