Riot police were deployed to Poland's Constitutional Tribunal on Friday as hundreds of demonstrators gathered to protest against the suspension of the top court's president by the current pro-European government.

More than 5,000 people have now died from an Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to government data.

A 35-year-old man has been arrested as part of an investigation into suspected terrorism offences on the Shankill Road in Belfast.

A photocall of foreign ministers was cancelled by the US after the UK's Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and other European counterparts refused to be pictured with Russia's envoy Sergei Lavrov.

A motorist has been found guilty of murder after hitting a cyclist and knowingly dragging him for more than a mile under his car.

Christa Pike, who survived an execution by lethal injection in the US, has spoken publicly for the first time since the incident a month ago and said she is in constant physical and mental pain.