A suspected jihadist car bomb attack kills at least 26 Egyptian soldiers in Sinai, Egyptian officials say, in one of deadliest incidents there.

Vladimir Putin says for the first time that Russia helped Ukraine's ex-President Viktor Yanukovych to flee after he was ousted in February.

The Metropolitan Police is to pay more than £400,000 to a woman whose child was fathered by a man she did not know was an undercover police officer.

Thirty years ago the BBC broadcast the first television reports of a devastating famine in Ethiopia. Tesfatsion Dalellew saw the reports and coordinated World Vision's response.

A collection of art by a master forger whose work fooled dealers and galleries around the world sells at auction for more than £50,000.

Computer workstations, electronic signature pads and free wi-fi are rolling out across UK job centres.

People living in Roman Britain had healthier gums than their modern-day descendants, a feat of archaeological dentistry shows.

The US will maintain control of South Korean troops in the event of war with the North, the two sides say, delaying again a long-planned command transfer.