Jailed former football star and actor OJ Simpson testifies at a Nevada court hearing on his request for a new trial in an armed robbery case.

Britain's rarest flower will have its own personal security guards when it goes on display at next week's Chelsea Flower Show.

Urgent changes must be made to the way A&E units are run - or the system could collapse, doctors and managers say.

Syrian rebel fighters launch an attack on Aleppo prison, and government forces respond with air raids and tank shells, reports say.

Plans for the £200m expansion of film company Pinewood Studios, seen as vital for the British movie industry, are turned down.

Cyclone Mahasen is bearing down on Bangladesh and Burma, where thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate from low-lying coastal districts.

A California woman convicted of killing her former boyfriend can be executed because of the cruel and heinous nature of her crime, a jury rules.

President Barack Obama announces the head of the US tax agency has quit, after it emerged his staff singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.