The Duke of Kent - the Queen's cousin - is in hospital with a hip injury, Buckingham Palace confirms.

The UN demands humanitarian access to "desperate" Palestinian refugees in the Yarmouk camp in Damascus, amid an assault by Islamic State.

Iraqi forensic experts begin exhuming 12 suspected mass graves of Iraqi soldiers killed by Islamic State militants in June 2014.

Almost 600 fewer GP surgeries in England now open at evenings and weekends than in the last Parliament, says Labour, but its figures are disputed by ministers.

Tony Blair is to enter the election campaign with an attack on David Cameron's pledge to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership.

Lawyers for two Australian drug smugglers on death row in Indonesia say they will continue to fight for them, after losing a legal challenge.

Malaysia passes a controversial anti-terrorism bill, reintroducing detention without trial, which it says is needed to tackle Islamic extremism.

Islamic radicalisation in England's prisons is getting worse, the former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office warns.