Rail services are set to be disrupted as workers at First Great Western stage a 24-hour strike in an ongoing dispute over new trains.

Thousands of migrants resume their journey north through Macedonia and into Serbia, after Macedonia reopens its border with Greece.

The finance ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland warn that UK government spending cuts are moving "too fast and too far".

Lebanese protesters demonstrating over a rubbish crisis clash with police in Beirut, leaving at least 15 people injured.

A giant panda at Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC gives birth to twin cubs.

Jessica Ennis-Hill leads the hepathlon with just the 800m to go as Katarina Johnson-Thompson falls out of contention.

A British hostage in Yemen is released after a military intelligence operation, the Foreign Office says.

Malaysia finds fresh mass graves containing 24 bodies suspected to be those of migrants trafficked near the border with Thailand.