US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko take off on a 12-month tour of duty on the International Space Station.

Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition bomb Yemen for a third night, targeting Shia Houthi rebels as they advance in and around the port of Aden.

Nicola Sturgeon is expected to send a message of "friendship and solidarity" to the rest of the UK during her speech to the SNP conference.

Hospital services will be available seven days a week by 2020 under a future Conservative government, David Cameron is to pledge.

The co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing an airliner into the French Alps knew the region from gliding holidays, people who knew him say.

Militants storm a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing at least ten people including a senior diplomat.

Voters in Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria, are set for presidential and national elections against the background of militant Islamist violence.