One in five people with motor neurone disease waits more than a year to see a brain specialist for help with diagnosis, a snapshot survey by the MND Association suggests.

The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel is to be officially opened in Switzerland, after almost two decades of construction work.

An editorial in North Korean state media says Donald Trump is a "wise politician" whose victory in US elections could be good for the North.

A Chinese teenager is found hiding in the cargo hold of an Emirates passenger jet that had flown from Shanghai to Dubai.

The first aid convoy since 2012 reaches Darayya, the besieged southern suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus, the country's Red Cross says.

A knife attacker who slashed the throat of a Tube passenger had images of murdered soldier Lee Rigby on his phone, a jury hears.

Al-Shabab gunmen storm a hotel in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu after car bomb attack, with reports of at least 10 dead.

Two people are dead and the campus is on lockdown at the University of California Los Angeles..