One in three council tenants affected by recent cuts to housing benefits has fallen behind on rent since the policy took effect, figures suggest.

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.

Police in Singapore arrest 14 people believed to be part of an organised crime gang involved in global football match-fixing.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says his country will never build nuclear weapons, hours after Tehran reportedly releases 11 political prisoners.

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.

Schoolboys should be given the HPV vaccine to protect them developing mouth and throat cancers, according to public and sexual health bodies.

Footage of bumblebees flying in a wind tunnel reveals how the insects manage in adverse weather, a discovery that could aid the design of flying robots.

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