US retail giant Target has been forced to apologise and pull a Halloween costume from sale after the outfit drew criticism for evoking blackface and minstrel shows.

A man has died after getting into difficulty while swimming off the coast of Devon.

A three-year-old boy who was seriously injured in a zoo's crocodile enclosure has been discharged from hospital and is back at home.

A student who stabbed his former friend through the heart after an argument about a fake Rolex watch has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment.

The family of a 23-year-old woman suspected to have been murdered in north London said "our hearts bleed with grief" as she was named by police.

At least 14 babies have died at a hospital nursery in Pakistan.