A UK campaign to highlight the harm caused by the production and distribution of cocaine is launched by the National Crime Agency.

MPs will decide later whether to authorise UK airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria at the end of what is expected to be a mammoth 10-hour debate.

Firearms officers might have to "walk over casualties" in the event of a Paris-style UK attack to deal with the threat, a senior officer says.

IAAF president Lord Coe is to be questioned by the culture, media and sport select committee about blood doping in athletics.

Pop star Madonna brings her Rebel Heart tour to London's O2 arena, 10 months after she fell off stage there at the Brit Awards.

The US is to deploy a specialised force to Iraq to build pressure on Islamic State militants, says US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter.

Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party won a massive victory in Myanmar's landmark elections last month, has met President Thein Sein to discuss the handover.

Fresh rains in the southern Indian city of Chennai causes serious flooding, with flights and trains suspended and hundreds of people without power.