Shale gas planning applications are to be fast-tracked under new government measures to crack down on councils that delay on making a decision.

The force of the explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin were so vast they "alarmed" China's National Earthquake Network.

A UK museum says it may hold Zimbabwean human remains, but cannot confirm if they are the "skulls of beheaded heroes" referred to by President Mugabe.

Asda is to increase the price it pays its milk supplier to "a level that will assist farmers during the current crisis", the supermarket says.