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

At least 27 people are killed in landslides caused by heavy rain that buried houses in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture, officials say.

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.

Two-thirds of the new jobs created since the financial crisis have been as a result of people becoming self-employed, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Ukrainian government and rebel forces both claim control of a small town after fierce fighting, as the death toll among civilians mounts.

Police investigating a series of letter bombs sent to addresses in Northern Ireland and England arrest four people.

The US, UK and France voice abhorrence at the apparent beheading of American journalist James Foley by an Islamic State (IS) militant.

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.