Junior Foreign Office minister Mark Simmonds has resigned from the government, Downing Street says.

Police are searching for a 15-year-old girl last seen on the Isle of Wight in the company of a 33-year-old man.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan hails a new era for Turkey and urges unity after winning the country's first direct presidential election.

World number one Rory McIlroy, 25, wins the fourth major of his career after digging deep to edge a gripping US PGA at Valhalla.

Forces loyal to Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki deploy to key areas of Baghdad after he criticises the president, amid a raging insurgency in the north.

Rural crime is rising, with a spate of sheep rustling and an increase in the theft of farming tools, vehicles and fuel driving up the figures.

Health warnings on alcoholic drinks should be introduced and the drink-drive limit cut, the All Parliamentary Party Group on Alcohol Misuse says.

The government is making Britain great again by matching economic recovery with social recovery, Iain Duncan Smith will say in a speech later.