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

Sweden expects to expel up to 80,000 asylum-seekers whose applications have been rejected, the country's interior minister says.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Researchers in the US urge the World Health Organisation to take urgent action over the zika virus, linked to shrunken brains in unborn children