Two out of nine members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted to raise interest earlier this month, the first time in three years policymakers have done so.

The police killing of a second black St Louis-area man threatens to further enflame tensions, ten days after the killing of Michael Brown, 18.

A number of rape claims are to be re-examined by Northumbria Police over fears they were incorrectly recorded as a "no crime".

Anti-government demonstrators in Pakistan advance towards parliament, using wire-cutters and cranes to breach a designated secure "red zone".

Three doctors in Liberia with Ebola who have taken an experimental drug are showing remarkable signs of improvement, a minister says.

MP George Galloway was interviewed by police after saying Bradford had been "declared an Israel-free zone", the BBC understands

The Islamic State militant group releases a video online purporting to show the killing of US journalist James Foley.

Police in Paraguay arrest a fugitive Brazilian fertility doctor, Roger Abdelmassih, convicted of sexually abusing 39 of his patients.