An elbow bone fragment believed to have come from St Thomas Becket will be carried into Canterbury Cathedral, 845 years after he was murdered there.

A Metropolitan Police sergeant is dismissed for failing to respond to a fatal attack in which a man was stabbed more than 200 times.

A rider dies and another is seriously injured in a crash during the pre-TT races.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it has moved to tackle the Zika virus, amid calls for the Rio Olympics to be postponed over the outbreak.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is joining celebrations to mark 1,000 years of Russian monks at the monastic enclave of Mount Athos in Greece.

More than 40 people, most of them children, have been injured by lightning strikes, at a park in Paris and a football match in Germany.

Eleven people, most of them children, have been struck by lightning in a Paris park, with six seriously injured, officials say.

A city centre department store is evacuated after a faulty electronic security tag making a loud ticking sound was mistaken for a bomb.