President Barack Obama has told his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah al Sisi, that the US will resume military aid to Egypt, frozen since 2013.

One of the largest medieval hospital burial grounds in England, containing about 1,300 remains, is discovered under St John's College.

The scale of China's land reclamation in the South China Sea is leading to "serious questions" on its intentions, a top US official says.

A government ban on inmates with a history of absconding from being transferred to open prisons is declared unlawful by High Court judges.

A builder admits murdering a property developer and his wife as they slept, in a jealous revenge attack.

Islamic State militants enter the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in the Syrian capital, seizing control of large areas, reports say.

A former police officer who leaked details of the Milly Dowler murder investigation to a national newspaper is jailed for 18 months.

Nine British nationals have been seized by Turkish authorities after trying to illegally enter Syria, armed forces in the country say.