Thirty-eight people die after a lorry collides with a bus on a motorway in China's southern Hunan province.

Christians flee the Iraqi city of Mosul after Islamist militants threatened to kill them unless they converted to Islam or paid a "protection tax".

The "world's eyes" are now on Russia to make sure it delivers for the victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond warns.

People in the UK who persistently pirate music and movies will soon start getting emails warning them that their actions are illegal.

More than 7,000 people are expected to attend Glasgow's annual celebration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender culture.

A shoe with a "Stilton wedge" heel is the latest weapon in a Cambridgeshire village's fight to have its blue cheese recognised officially as Stilton.

At least 146 people have been charged with offences having been told they would not be prosecuted after their alleged victims appealed, BBC News learns.

Ukraine accuses pro-Russian separatists at the crash site of Malaysian airliner MH17 of trying to destroy evidence of "international crime".