Prison officer cuts have left the prison system in England and Wales "in crisis", says the Howard League for Penal Reform.

The outgoing European Commission president is to call on pro-European politicians in the UK to make a more positive case for staying in the EU.

Japanese Trade and Industry Minister Yuko Obuchi submits her resignation amid allegations of political funds misuse.

A suicide attacker kills at least 18 people at a Shia mosque in Iraq's capital Baghdad, the latest in a spate of insurgent attacks.

US military aircraft drop weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish fighters battling IS militants in the key Syrian town of Kobane.

Firefighters are investigating the cause of a major blaze at Didcot B power station in Oxfordshire.

Turkey is to allow Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross the Syrian border to Kobane to fight Islamic State militants, its foreign minister says.

The housing market is "sitting on a plateau", a lenders' group has said, despite renewed competition between providers on mortgage rates.