Boko Haram militants are suspected of carrying out two high-profile abductions in Cameroon and a church bombing in northern Nigeria.

The public should be able to question the prime minister in Westminster every week, just as MPs do, Labour leader Ed Miliband tells the BBC.

Hours after Hamas announces a ceasefire in Gaza, Palestinian militants resume firing rockets into Israel and Israel rejects the pause.

Israel accepts a UN request for a 24-hour ceasefire in Gaza, but Hamas says it rejects the terms of the truce.

More than 200 residents are evacuated from homes after the discovery of what Derbyshire police called a "potentially volatile substance" in a flat.

The demolition of three cooling towers at Didcot A Power Station is set to begin in the early hours of Sunday.

A 61-year-old man has died while trying to retrieve a ball from a lake in Buckinghamshire.

Russia should lose the right to host the 2018 World Cup as part of sanctions following the Malaysia Airlines crash in eastern Ukraine, Nick Clegg says.