Authorities in the US are investigating letters containing "suspicious substances" that have been posted to congressional and electoral offices.

The head of the army says the UK's political leaders are about to start a "frank conversation" with the public about the need to prepare for war.

A pipe bomb exploded after being put through the letterbox of a Belfast home while a mother and her children were inside, police have said.

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has rejected newly unsealed torture allegations against him and his wife as "false accusations".

A British father has been fined €3,000 (£2,500) for causing the death of his two-year-old son who fell from the fourth floor of a hotel in Cyprus.

A woman killed in a suspected stabbing has been identified by police after a man was arrested on suspicion of murder.