A British Army soldier has been killed in a training accident, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.

Rugby league legend John Kear has died "suddenly", a day after commentating on the Challenge Cup final.

It's only a couple of months or so since I was last in Cuba, and conditions then were pretty dire: power cuts, large queues for bread and fuel, state-run grocery stores virtually empty, mounting piles of rubbish on street corners, and few foreign visitors.

Police are investigating six stabbings after Arsenal's Premier League title-winning parade in London on Sunday.

Israeli forces have captured a strategically important fortress from the Crusades, marking the country's deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter of a century.

The Metropolitan Police have taken over an investigation into the murder of a man whose body was found in a van in Leicester on Wednesday.