The number of adults with diabetes in the world has more than doubled since 1980, a new study warns.

Patients are taken to safety as a large fire at a hospital in Derbyshire closes its emergency department.

Two British Airways pilots are questioned by police after a mobile phone was allegedly thrown from a plane on to an airport runway.

U2 made their first appearance at the Glastonbury music festival, as the Pyramid Stage's headline act on Friday night.

Prominent Chinese dissident Hu Jia is freed after three and a half years in prison, his wife says, days after the release of artist Ai Weiwei.

An Israeli couple have been given suspended prison sentences in Poland for the theft of artefacts from the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, officials say.

China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao talks up the euro ahead of a three-day business summit in Britain.

Photographs of offenders and more details of their offences could be added to online "crime maps" under plans by the Home Office.