The live National Lottery Lotto draw did not go ahead as planned on Saturday evening because of a technical glitch with the draw machine.

Police hi-tech crime units dealing with cases of suspected child abuse are grappling with backlogs across the UK, the BBC learns.

People in Burundi are leaving their homes in large numbers ahead of a promised government crackdown.

Polls have opened in Myanmar's general election - the first openly contested poll in 25 years after decades of military rule.

The government should take "decisive action" and support a third runway at Heathrow, the head of one of the UK's biggest business groups says.

Nine more people die of their injuries after last week's fire at a Romanian nightclub, bringing the number of deaths to 41, officials say.

A pair of licence plates from the car that drove John F Kennedy when he was killed sell at auction for $100,000 (£66,000).

David Cameron is to warn European leaders he will "think again" about the UK staying in the EU if his demands for reform are "met with a deaf ear".