An alleged member of an Iranian spy ring operating in the UK wanted £150,000 to "finish off" a journalist, a court has heard.

A woman has died in hospital after she was hit by a car in East Ayrshire.

A former German intelligence chief has been arrested on suspicion of passing state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, federal prosecutors said.

A former German intelligence chief has been arrested on allegations that he "spied out state secrets", the country's federal prosecutor's office said.

Inflatable boats capable of carrying up to 1,700 illegal immigrants across the Channel have been seized at East Midlands Airport.

Donald Trump has ordered a firing squad to execute an ex-US army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in Texas, the Pentagon said.