Services and events are held across the country on the eve of the centenary of the UK's entry into World War One.

The situation in Gaza is "simply intolerable and must be addressed", Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg suggests homeowners could be compensated if the value of their property falls when new garden cities are built.

Kylie Minogue, Lulu, Deacon Blue and more than 2,000 performers will bring the curtain down on the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow later.

Four people are killed and 20 others injured after a flash flood tore through a festival in a village near Venice in northern Italy.

The Bishop of Manchester urges the government to offer asylum to thousands of Christians in northern Iraq.

A woman is charged with murdering a seven-year-old girl in Nottingham.

An attack that killed 10 people at a UN-run Gaza school was a "moral outrage and a criminal act", UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says.