Poachers are blamed after more than 80 elephants are poisoned with industrial cyanide in Zimbabwe's Hwange national park.

At least 270 people are killed as a 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes south-western Pakistan, causing a new island to emerge.

Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas is charged over her role in a fracking protest at Balcombe in West Sussex.

Cuckoo finches lay multiple eggs in the nests of other birds to make it harder to detect the 'imposters', researchers find.

An Alaskan airport says it has had to place barricades across one of its taxiways after an Apple Maps flaw resulted in iPhone users driving across a runway.