Police in the US city of Cleveland shoot and kill a 12-year-old boy who had been waving what turned out to be a fake gun.

Peru's environmental police launch an investigation into the deaths of some 500 sea lions found on a northern beach.

Two men are seriously burned in an explosion at a flat in south Birmingham while rescue dogs search the remains of the property.

The case of a businessman who wants to stop malicious web postings about him appearing in Google searches is set to begin at the High Court.

A British man fighting with Kurdish troops against Islamic State militants in Syria tells the BBC he is not a mercenary.

After Band Aid 30 single Do They Know It's Christmas tops the chart, Bob Geldof urges music fans to keep downloading it to fight Ebola.

British banker Rurik Jutting is ruled fit to stand trial for the murder of two women in Hong Kong, after undergoing psychiatric assessments.

Police charge a 30-year-old woman with attempted murder after she abandoned her newborn baby boy in a drain in western Sydney.