Washington DC's Capitol Police order a review into a BBC report that an armed police team was ordered not to respond to Monday's mass shooting.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad tells Fox News he is committed to destroying his country's chemical weapons but it will take about a year to do so.

Former US heavyweight boxing champion Ken Norton, who beat Muhammad Ali, has died at the age of 70, his family says.

Former Home Secretary Jack Straw urges Theresa May to seek answers over the length of the police probe into the Downing Street "plebgate" incident.

Migrants from outside the EU would have to have medical insurance to enter the UK under plans by the UK Independence Party to curb "health tourism".

Egyptian security forces clash with militants in a major operation in a town outside Cairo, where 11 police were killed last month.

Managers and senior staff from some of the best performing hospitals in England will be sent into 11 failing facilities in an effort to improve them.

European stock markets follow Asia by rising after the US central bank unexpectedly said it would not begin scaling back its huge economic stimulus action.