A text messaging service could help people remember to take the medicines they have been prescribed, say researchers.

A US grand jury will consider charges in the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man in New York City, as protests over other deaths continue.

Adnan el Shukrijuma, al-Qaeda militant accused of planning to bomb trains in New York and London, is killed in Pakistan, officials say.

Young people in Africa are being "sold the dream" of living in the UK only to be trafficked into slavery, the Archbishop of Westminster says.

Thousands of shops have failed to adapt their premises for disabled customers, with a fifth excluding wheelchair users, research finds.

About half a million people flee coastal villages in the Philippines as powerful Typhoon Hagupit heads towards areas devastated by a storm last year.

US and Yemeni forces launch an operation to rescue British-born US hostage Luke Somers who has been held by al-Qaeda militants, reports say.

US journalist Luke Somers and South African teacher Pierre Korkie are killed by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen during a rescue attempt by special forces.