Google has said data was wiped from discs at one of its data centres in Belgium - after it was struck by lightning four times.

Confusion over the types of coal being burned in Chinese power stations means the country's carbon emissions have been overestimated.

South Sudan's president has promised to sign a peace deal he snubbed earlier this week, the US State Department says.

A West Virginia man is charged with making a fake bomb threat, which led to the evacuation of the Statue of Liberty in April.

A top UN official warns that months of conflict in Yemen has pushed the country to the brink of famine, with millions in urgent need of help.

Australian authorities stop seven young Australians at Sydney airport suspected of travelling to the Middle East to fight.

A state security building in northern Cairo has been hit by a car bomb, Egypt's Ministry of Interior says, injuring several people.

British police are to work with French officers and the UK Border Force at a new "command and control centre" in Calais, the government announces.