Irish women live-tweeting Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Enda Kenny their menstrual cycles to highlight the country's restrictive abortion laws.

The government is to write to British embassies in countries where dog meat is consumed urging them to suggest ways to improve animal welfare following a Commons debate.

Sir Cliff Richard has been re-interviewed by police investigating alleged sexual assaults after meeting with officers voluntarily, the singer's spokesman says.

Four out of five people are happy with their GP surgery's opening hours, and Sunday appointments are not in demand, suggests research in the British Journal of General Practice.

There will be a new Office for Students and improved teaching, as Universities Minister Jo Johnson announces a consumer rights shake-up of higher education in England.

Nasa's Maven satellite records how the upper atmosphere at Mars is being removed through its interactions with the Sun.

Prison inspectors find "squalid" conditions and a "dangerous" disregard for risks posed by detainees at court cells in England and Wales.

France, Belgium and the Netherlands join the UK in curbing travel to Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, after a plane crash killed 224 people on Saturday.