Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy wins a majority in Myanmar's historic election, ending decades of military-backed rule.

At least 40 people are killed in multiple attacks in France's capital Paris, while up to 60 are reportedly being held hostage in an arts centre.

Vulnerable children across the UK are likely to have lost out because of ministers' "special treatment" of failed charity Kids Company", says a group of MPs.

US forces have carried out an air strike in Syria targeting the British Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", the Pentagon says.

All police officers in England and Wales could have to be educated to degree level in the future, under plans proposed by the College of Policing.

Militants from so-called Islamic State say they were behind two suicide bomb attacks in the Lebanese capital Beirut which killed at least 41 people.

Kurdish forces say they have entered the IS-controlled northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, as Iraqi forces say they are attacking IS-held Ramadi.

Becky Watts' mother says that seeing her murdered child in the mortuary still "haunts" her, ahead of the sentencing of the teenager's killers.