Armed police spend a second night locked in a stand-off with a man thought to be in possession of "dangerous items".

Company directors could be fined up to £500,000 if their business is behind nuisance phone calls, under government moves to clamp down on the problem.

Bangladesh need 33 more to win with two wickets left against England after four days of the first Test in Chittagong.

Counter-terror police investigating the discovery of a suspicious item on a Tube train are granted a warrant to hold a man for further questioning.

The UK is to send about 30 soldiers to join the Nato force in Kosovo next year, Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon says.

Doctors' leaders are calling for the urgent introduction of a 24-hour helpline for prescription drug dependence.

Turkey insists that it cannot remain idle during the fight to drive militants from so-called Islamic State from the Iraqi city of Mosul.

Multiple blasts in a park area of the Japanese city of Utsunomiya have killed at least one person and injured at least two, emergency services say.