Barnardo's receives £3m to fund a team of specialists to tackle child sex abuse in South Yorkshire.

US President Barack Obama is set to unveil what he calls "the biggest, most important step we have ever taken" in tackling climate change.

Nigeria's army says it has rescued 178 people, more than 100 of them children, from Boko Haram militants in the north-east of the country.

Profit at HSBC, Europe's largest bank, was up 10% in the first half of this year compared with a year ago on strong earnings in Hong Kong.

An airport that was closed after a private jet crashed killing three members of Osama Bin Laden's family reopens.

First Great Western rail workers are to stage strikes, including over the August Bank Holiday weekend, the Rail, Maritime and Transport union says.

Amnesty International says that military police in the Brazilian city of Rio have killed more than 1,500 people in the last five years.

King Salman of Saudi Arabia cuts short a holiday on the French Riviera where the closure of a beach for his security caused an uproar.