Polls close in the Clacton and Heywood and Middleton by-elections, with UKIP hoping to win a Westminster seat.

The US state of Oklahoma unveils its newly remodelled death chamber, where at least three men are scheduled to be executed before year's end.

Police in Anchorage, Alaska, release a report describing a drunken brawl involving the son and daughter of Republican luminary Sarah Palin.

Antibiotics prescriptions and cases of resistant bacteria in England have continued to soar despite dire warnings and campaigns, figures show.

Pay in the private sector is likely to rise faster than public sector wages in the next four years, according to a report.

Parents feel unable to make children study by blocking internet access, as homework often requires online research, a survey suggests.

Four more mass graves are found in the southern Mexican town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing after clashed with police last month.

The Ebola virus is now entrenched in the capitals of the three West African countries at the centre of the outbreak and is spreading, the WHO warns.