A bomb explodes at a hospital in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing more than 50 people, many of whom had gathered to mourn a prominent local lawyer.

A man killed on a train may have been leaning from a window when he suffered a blow to the head, police say.

Two foreign citizens said to be academics have been kidnapped in the Afghan capital Kabul, police tell the BBC.

The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) launches an investigation into allegations of "fraud, bribery and corruption" in the civil aviation business of Airbus.

A man has been shot dead in Sunningdale Gardens off the Ballysillan Road

Commuters across London and the South East face travel chaos as a five-day strike begins on the Southern rail network in a long-running row over the role of conductors.

Britons are under-reporting their daily calorie consumption - potentially misleading policymakers attempting to curb obesity, a report suggests.

The bosses of Britain's biggest publicly listed companies now have an average pay packet of nearly £5.5m.