The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is committing $50m to help step up efforts to tackle Ebola in West Africa.

Russia's gas supplies to Poland have dropped by 45%, Poland's state gas firm PGNiG says, amid tensions over Ukraine.

A battered iPhone belonging to missing schoolgirl Alice Gross could hold key information that may help find her, police say.

Ten Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, agree to rally with the US in tackling the threat posed by Islamic State jihadists.

President Barack Obama is due to lay out the US strategy to defeat Islamic State militants, reported to include air strikes in Syria.

Royal Bank of Scotland confirms it has contingency plans to move its headquarters from Scotland to London if there is a Yes vote in the referendum.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is admitted to hospital with a tentative diagnosis of a tumour after suffering months of abdominal pain.

The ozone layer around the earth is showing its first sign of thickening after years of steady depletion, a UN team says.