Australia regain the Women's Ashes after England collapse to 87 all out to lose the second Twenty20 international by 20 runs.

The UN says "much more is required" to prevent fatalities among migrants fleeing to Europe, after hundreds are reported dead in recent days.

News Corp confirms it is in talks with Rebekah Brooks after the Financial Times newspaper reports she is to return as chief executive of its UK division.

Ministers must provide more funding to protect injured war veterans from spending compensation on social care costs, local authority leaders say.

A series of memorial events is to take place later to mark one week since the Shoreham air crash in which 11 people are thought to have died.

The government should limit the amount of money spent on legal advice for politicians, officials and military figures as part of the Chilcot inquiry, a Tory MP says.

A team of Nasa recruits begins a year-long isolation in a dome near a barren volcano in Hawaii, to simulate life on Mars.

A French satellite system pictures a pile of rubble where the ancient Temple of Baalshamin at Palmyra in Syria used to stand.