Police have spent about £10m providing a 24-hour guard at the Ecuadorean embassy in London since Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claimed asylum there.

A fire in a small wholesale market in southern China's Guangdong province kills 17 people, state media say.

A man on trial for the murder of a hotel landlady is found dead at a Hull Prison.

Yemen's Shia Houthi rebel movement announces it is taking over the government and dissolving parliament.

A press officer for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has been given an eight-month suspended sentence after he admitted leaking details of the 2010 budget to the Sun.

Islamic State militants say US hostage Kayla Jean Mueller was killed in a Jordanian air strike on Syria, without providing evidence.

A woman is arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of conspiracy to commit female genital mutilation.

Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is accused of promoting tax avoidance "on an industrial scale", in a report by a committee of MPs.