The White House says Russian air strikes against militants in Syria are "indiscriminate" and threaten to draw Russia more deeply into the crisis.

A Sierra Leonean sprinter who went missing after competing at Glasgow's Commonwealth Games and later applied to stay in the UK is told his application has been refused.

A teenager is the third person to be arrested over an attack on a pregnant woman in south London after which she lost her baby.

A widow threatened with prosecution over her son missing school after his father was killed by a drink-driver is told she will not face legal action.

An Israeli couple have been shot dead while driving in the West Bank, the Israeli military says, amid rising tensions.

Hurricane Joaquin brings heavy rains and winds to parts of the Bahamas after it was reclassified up to the second strongest type of storm.

A North Yorkshire plant that prints telephone directories is set to close, with the loss of 200 jobs.

The president of the National Union of Students has emphatically ruled out working with the controversial advocacy group, Cage.