British director Steve McQueen takes the People's Choice award as the 2013 Toronto Film Festival closes.

The most senior woman police officer in Afghanistan's troubled Helmand province is shot and injured by unknown gunmen, an official says.

Volunteers from the helpline Childline are planning to visit every UK primary school at least once every two years to teach children about abuse, as part of a new NSPCC campaign.

Business Secretary Vince Cable pledges to end abuse of zero-hours contracts, as he unveils policies to support a "fairer" economic recovery at the Lib Dem conference in Glasgow.

Close allies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel are claiming victory in Bavarian polls seen as a yardstick ahead of a general election next week.

UK butterfly numbers are up following a summer of warm weather, according to a nationwide survey.

South Korean workers return to the Kaesong industrial park in North Korea, five months after work was suspended amid severe political tension.

A 32-year-old British climber has fallen 2,000ft to his death on a mountain in a New Zealand national park, police say.