Jeremy Corbyn is criticised for standing by his senior policy adviser Andrew Fisher, who has been suspended over complaints he urged support for another party's candidate at the general election.

A police officer, struck by a lorry in a hit-and-run incident while investigating a cash machine robbery, remains in a stable condition in hospital.

The next series of The Voice UK will be the last to be broadcast on the BBC, after it was "poached by another broadcaster", the corporation says.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith is resisting Treasury efforts to make the new Universal Credit benefit less generous, the BBC understands.

There are protests in Taipei as Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou leaves for talks with China's President Xi Jinping, the first ever talks between leaders of the two sides.

Sierra Leone celebrates ahead of what it expects will be official confirmation from the World Health Organization that the country is free of Ebola.

Many of the 50 protestors arrested during the anti-capitalist Million Mask March in London are bailed, the Met says.

The Egyptian foreign minister criticises the response of some countries to the Russian plane crash in Sinai amid signs a bomb may have caused it.