Al Jazeera America will shut down its cable news channel despite spending heavily to break into the US market.

Transgender people in the UK face "high levels of transphobia" on a daily basis and they have "a long way to go" to achieve equality in the UK, MPs say.

Liberia is to be declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization, effectively putting an end to the world's worst outbreak of the deadly disease.

Islamic State militants say they were behind a series of explosions and gun attacks in the Indonesian capital Jakarta that have left at least seven people dead.

Opinion pollsters' failure to predict the outcome of May's general election may have been because Conservative voters are harder to track down, a report says.

A car-bomb attack on a police HQ in Turkey's majority-Kurdish province of Diyarbakir kills at least five people and wounds dozens, local media say.

Talks aimed at avoiding further NHS strikes in England are due to resume later, amid warnings the government could impose its controversial new contract on junior doctors.

Frontline, a scheme to recruit high-calibre graduates into children's social work, is to be rolled out across England.