Italian police arrest a man in connection to the bombing of a school in Brindisi last month, in which a 16-year-old girl was killed, local media says.

Reserve forces and private contractors will be key to the Army's future, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond is due to say in a speech to military experts.

Mobile phone giants Vodafone and Telefonica announce plans to create one shared grid in the UK to speed up the roll-out of superfast 4G services.

Sellafield's Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant in Cumbria is to close in 2018, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority confirms.

UN monitors in Syria say the army has been preventing them from reaching the village of Qubair, where 78 people are reported to have been massacred.

Five men and a teenager are jailed for between 12 and 30 years after police were "lured" to a pub fire and shot at during riots in Birmingham.

Spain will try to raise money on the credit markets on Thursday, days after it said it was blocked from them, as bailout rumours continue to swirl.

Reports of a man "who looks like a Smurf" behaving suspiciously in the Forest of Dean are being investigated by police.