A man is charged with a series of offences including rape and kidnap after a teenage girl was dragged out of a Pizza Hut and attacked.

At least 11 children and an adult die after a storm catches a boating party on Lake Syamozero in northern Russia's Karelia region.

Follow the opinion polls in the run up to the UK referendum on EU membership on 23 June.

A Colorado mother saves her five-year-old son by prying open a mountain lion's mouth after it attacked the boy in their front yard, officials say.

The UK government needs to do more to respond to the current refugee crisis, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says.

Plans to scrap bursaries for student nurses and other front-line staff in England are reckless, unions and charities are warning.

The UK faces an "existential choice" in the EU referendum from which there would be "no turning back", David Cameron says, but the Leave campaign urges people to "vote for democracy".

Crowds are gathering on the Japanese island of Okinawa to protest against the heavy US military presence in the area.