Many people are feared dead after suspected Boko Haram Islamist gunmen attack the town of Damboa in north-eastern Nigeria.

Shelling cuts electricity and water supplies in most of the rebel-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, and an oil refinery is on fire.

Failures by an expedition company did not cause the death of a British teenager mauled by a polar bear in Norway, a coroner says.

Strike action by BBC staff planned to disrupt coverage of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony is suspended after talks.

James Bond star Ben Whishaw is cast as the voice of Paddington in the upcoming film about the Peruvian bear.

A report on immigration has caused a row within government because Conservative ministers believed it was too pro-European, Newsnight learns.

US President Barack Obama says a surface-to-air missile fired from a rebel-held area of Ukraine brought down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

The number of people fleeing to UN shelters in Gaza has nearly doubled since Thursday, when Israel started its ground offensive, the UN says.