The Gambia says it is to withdraw from the Commonwealth, 48 years after joining the 54-member grouping.

Oil giant BP's attempts to limit claims over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill get a boost after a US appeals court halts some payments.

A second work by Banksy emerges in New York after a first work by the British artist, who announced a month-long residency there, was painted over.

At least 82 African migrants have died as a boat carrying migrants sinks off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, local officials say.

A UKIP candidate of Pakistani origin lambasts former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine for branding the party "racist".

A jury finds Michael Jackson's concert promoters, AEG Live, not guilty of negligence in hiring the doctor who killed him in 2009.

The GP system in England is facing a "catastrophe" because of cuts in funding representing a £400m drop in real terms, doctors' leaders warn.

Exercise can be as good a medicine as pills for people with conditions such as heart disease, a study finds.