Former Professional Footballers' Association chairman Clarke Carlisle is in hospital after a serious road accident.

Sydney remembers the victims of the Lindt cafe siege, with the funeral of manager Tori Johnson and a memorial service for barrister Katrina Dawson.

Detailed investigations at the scene of a fatal bin lorry crash in Glasgow are due to resume at first light, police say.

If you curl up under the duvet with an ebook for a bedtime read then you are damaging your sleep and maybe your health, US doctors have warned.

Early trials in Uganda reveal an experimental Ebola vaccine is as safe in African populations as it is in American populations.

North Korea suffers severe internet outages, days after the US accuses the country of being behind a massive attack on Sony Pictures.

The fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in Milwaukee is to be reviewed after a prosecutor decides not to press charges.

Syria has authorised the delivery of medicine to opposition-held districts of Aleppo and two other areas, the World Health Organization says.