An "oddball" loner is found guilty of raping and murdering a barmaid he promised to "get home safe" after they met outside a nightclub.

A family syndicate from Monmouthshire are celebrating after winning more than £61m in the EuroMillions jackpot.

China will not tolerate "unwanted accusations" following the UK government's decision to delay signing off on the Hinkley nuclear power project, the country's state-run news agency says.

A new law comes into effect in the US state of Texas that allows university students to carry concealed guns on campus.

Major English cities - particularly Manchester - have seen the sharpest falls in home ownership since an early 2000s peak, amid rising house prices, analysis suggests.

A High Court judge is set to rule on an NHS England decision not to fund a drug that can prevent HIV - a treatment campaigners call a "game changer".

Women who have had their appendix or tonsils removed appear to be more fertile, a 15-year study of more than half a million British women suggests.

One of the last known populations of woolly mammoths became extinct because of a lack of drinking water, a study concludes.