Royal Bank of Scotland is to give up control of Direct Line after saying it will sell part of its stake in the insurer.

Black smoke emerges from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating that cardinals have failed to elect a new pope on their first day of voting.

Racing pundit John McCririck is taken to hospital after falling ill at the Cheltenham Festival, officials at the course have said.

Crews from across Shropshire tackle a gorse and grass fire on the Long Mynd.

Traffic is brought to a standstill on a Kent seafront when a seal leaves the water, crosses a pub car park and lies down in the road.

The US airline regulator approves a set of fixes to the battery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, clearing the way for the aircraft to resume flights.

Former German army lieutenant Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, who took part in a plot to assassinate German leader Adolf Hitler, has died.