NHS patients in England should get results for cancer tests within four weeks of being referred by a GP by 2020 under new plans to provide "world class care".

Hundreds of campers are evacuated as brush fires threaten southern California, as a separate blaze that engulfed a highway dies down.

Seven local authorities in the North East of England are to begin negotiations with the government over establishing a directly elected mayor for the region.

One of the contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump, sparks uproar with an attack on the war record of John McCain.

Rail passengers who suffer travel delays can now claim refunds in cash instead of vouchers as new compensation arrangements come into effect.

Britain is committed to working with the US to destroy the "caliphate" set up by Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, Prime Minister David Cameron says.

American comedian Bill Cosby admitted trying to pay women to keep quiet after having sex with them, in testimony found by the New York Times.

Detectives continue to question a man about the fatal stabbing of Don Lock, 79, after a car crash in West Sussex.