A court based in The Hague has ordered Russia to pay $50bn (£29.5bn) to former shareholders in the defunct oil producer Yukos.

A man admits stealing £300,000 intended for the armed forces veterans' charity Help for Heroes.

The family of a woman who made 999 calls for help before she was stabbed to death by her boyfriend, seeks a negligence claim against two police forces in the Supreme Court.

The bidding process for UK licences to explore for shale gas will begin later, the government announces.

Two fast-moving wildfires in California have destroyed 10 homes and forced the evacuation of hundreds more, officials say.

A high school girl has been arrested on suspicion of killing and dismembering a classmate, Japanese police say.

Lightning strikes, hail, torrential rain and flash flooding cause severe travel problems across large areas of south-east England.

The downing of Malaysian airliner MH17 in eastern Ukraine may constitute a "war crime", the UN human rights chief Navi Pillay says.