Skinny jeans can seriously damage muscles and nerves, doctors say, citing the case of a woman who had to be cut out of a pair after her calves ballooned.

Japan is to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Okinawa - one of the bloodiest episodes in the Pacific during World War Two.

Australia says it is trying to verify reports that two of its citizens who went to fight for Islamic State have been killed in Iraq.

James Horner, the Hollywood composer who wrote the score for the Oscar-winning film hit Titanic, dies in a plane crash in California.

Rwanda's intelligence chief Karenzi Karake, who is wanted in Spain for war crimes, has been arrested in London, BBC Newsnight has learned.

Fifteen people have been arrested on human trafficking charges as part of a joint operation between Bosnian and French police.

Pressure mounts to withdraw Confederate battle flag across the US, after South Carolina lawmakers called for its removal from the state house.

Ukraine's ex-president Viktor Yanukovych tells the BBC he accepts some responsibility for the killings that led to his overthrow.