The FBI is investigating the role played by Fifa president Sepp Blatter in a $100m bribes scandal, Panorama has discovered.

Schools and hospital services are closed amid continuing efforts to prevent further damage from Storm Desmond in northern England and Scotland.

The opposition in Venezuela wins a majority of seats in the National Assembly, overturning nearly two decades of dominance by the governing Socialists.

A US-led coalition air strike on an army camp in Syria kills three soldiers, the Syrian government says, condemning the act of "flagrant aggression".

The leader of France's far-right National Front says voters rejected the "old political class" in regional elections that put her party top.

Schools in Beijing are to close and outdoor construction to stop after the Chinese capital issued its first "red alert" over smog levels.

For the first time, global emissions of carbon dioxide are likely to stall and perhaps decline this year, even as the world economy grows, according to new research.

Democratic Unionist Party deputy leader Nigel Dodds says he will not be standing for the leadership of the party.