US Secretary of State John Kerry says Iran has a role to play in the fight against Islamic State despite not being part of the US-led coalition.

Wales should be rewarded for not putting the UK "through the mincer" of a referendum on independence, former first minister Rhodri Morgan says, after Scotland voted to stay in the UK.

David Cameron and Ed Miliband are at odds over plans for English MPs to be given power over England-only issues.

Police make three arrests after separating groups of rival Unionist and independence supporters in George Square in the centre of Glasgow.

Catalonia's parliament votes to give its leader the power to call a secession consultation, a move the Spanish government has criticised.

Voters in New Zealand begin voting after what is being called the dirtiest campaign in the nation's history.

The Ukrainian government and pro-Russian rebels agree a memorandum on a peace plan for the conflict in the east of the country, at talks in Minsk.

Leading British Muslim scholars make a direct appeal to Islamic State militants to free Alan Henning, a UK hostage threatened with death.