China's economic growth slows to 7.4% last year from 7.7% in 2013, marking its slowest pace of expansion in 24 years.

Guards enter a compound at an Australian offshore detention centre where asylum seekers had barricaded themselves in, removing alleged ringleaders.

MPs approve legislation to help fast-track female bishops into the House of Lords over the next decade.

Monitors in eastern Ukraine warn of a serious deterioration in security as fighting intensifies in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The International Monetary Fund has lowered its forecast for global economic growth for this year and next.

The administrators called in to run failed spread betting firm Alpari UK say they have received several inquiries from potential buyers.

Shoplifting, cyber-crime and fraud cost the retail industry £603m in the 2013-14 financial year, the British Retail Industry says.

Baby Gammy, who was born with Down's syndrome to a surrogate mother in Thailand, is granted Australian citizenship, local media report.