Japan and South Korea are preparing to mark 70 years since the end of WW2, when Japan's surrender freed Korea from a 35-year occupation.

The new Scottish Labour leader is due to be announced later, with MSPs Kezia Dugdale and Ken Macintosh vying for the job.

In a review of the government's first 100 days in office, the doctors' union the BMA says ministers have been chasing headlines rather than tackling the real issues facing the NHS in England

Human rights group Amnesty International issues harsh criticism of what it calls "inhumane" conditions at Austria's main refugee camp.

The Queen will join former prisoners of war and veterans at a service on the 70th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan surrendered and World War Two ended.

Eighty-five people are now known to have been killed in giant explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin on Wednesday, local officials say.

All schools will be given the chance to convert to academy status "to benefit from the freedoms this brings", David Cameron says.

The Chinese authorities order the evacuation of residents within a 3km radius of the Tianjin blast site as sodium cyanide is confirmed nearby.