The UK is to take in an unconfirmed number of unaccompanied child refugees from Syria and other conflict zones but not those who have fled to Europe.

The armed occupiers of a wildlife reserve in Oregon were given the chance to avoid the violence that left one of them dead, say police.

The United States eases a number of trade restrictions with Cuba, in President Obama's latest attempt to bypass the US economic embargo on the island.

A man has been arrested with two firearms at the entrance to a hotel at Disneyland Paris, French police say.

The carcasses of three sperm whales washed up on the east coast are taken to landfill sites.

Girls at single-sex state schools in England get better GCSE results than those in mixed schools, according to an analysis of the most recent exams.

Ammon Bundy, the leader of an armed siege at a wildlife refuge in Oregon who was arrested on Tuesday, urges the remaining occupiers to go home.

Older people in need of urgent help are being failed by the NHS in England, according to a group of health leaders.