Nine new prisons will open in England and Wales - five by 2020 - under plans to close Victorian jails and sell them for housing, the government says.

An emergency meeting to discuss the crisis in the steel industry is to be held by European economy ministers at the request of the UK.

A 14-year-old boy and two men are charged with the murder of a man who was stabbed to death in north-west London.

The British music industry invested nearly £500m in new music in 2014, with the signing up of new artists by major labels up 30%, data suggests.

Inmates have lit fires at Australia's Christmas Island migrant detention centre in a "major disturbance", say officials, with staff withdrawn.

One of the most controversial cases of alleged rendition involving the UK - brought by a former Libyan dissident - comes before the Supreme Court later.

The boss of the troubled steel company Caparo, Angad Paul, dies after plunging from his penthouse flat.

Global temperatures are set to rise more than 1C above pre-industrial levels in 2015, according to the UK's Met Office.