The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh had an unscheduled trip in a parliamentary lift following her speech to MPs and peers, the BBC learns.

A Kwik-Fit mechanic who killed a boy in Essex while driving a customer's Porsche without consent is jailed for six-and-a-half years.

A major earthquake measuring 7.4 in magnitude strikes near Acapulco, in central southern Mexico, with some houses reportedly damaged.

The gunman who shot dead seven people in the south of France knows he is being hunted and is likely to strike again, the prosecutor says.

Chancellor George Osborne could announce a significant further increase in personal tax allowances in the Budget, the BBC understands.

Venice, the famous Italian City of Water, is continuing to sink at a rate of about 2mm a year, new satellite measurements show.

The US imposes duties on Chinese solar panel manufacturers after it said that they received unfair subsidies.