Adidas is to end its multi-million pound sponsorship deal with the IAAF early, amid the doping scandal engulfing the body.

Full access to Europe's single market is vital for UK businesses and jobs, the main group campaigning for Britain to remain in the EU will say.

Almost all of Australia's state and territory leaders sign a document in support of replacing the Queen as head of state.

Forty inmates escape from jail in the Brazilian city of Recife after a bomb was used to blow a hole in an external wall, the second such breakout in a week.

Security guards are employed to prevent people from "scavenging" from the corpse of a sperm whale which died on a beach.

A whale is washed up on the Lincolnshire coast, following the discovery of three carcasses near Skegness and the death of a beached whale in Norfolk.

So-called Islamic State has developed a new style of combat to target Europe, Europol says, as the law enforcement agency opens a new counter-terror unit.

David Cameron says agreement on renegotiating Britain's EU membership is possible next month but it has to be the "right deal" for the UK.