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.

The British embassy in Iran is to be reopened later, nearly four years after it was closed.

A row over spending on mental health in England breaks out after Labour accuses ministers of failing to honour promises.

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.

The Met Office has lost its weather forecasting contract with the BBC after providing the service for nearly a century, it confirms.

North Sea oil revenues in the first three months of 2015 were down 75% on the previous quarter, the Scottish Conservatives say.

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