The UK Coastguard urges holidaymakers and swimmers to be aware of warnings from lifeguards and changeable weather following the deaths of six people.

Mo Farah wins his fourth Olympic gold medal as he becomes the second man in history to retain the 5,000m and 10,000m titles.

US swimmer Ryan Lochte tells Brazilian TV he is sorry, after "over-exaggerating" claims he was robbed at gunpoint while at the Rio Olympics.

Prime Minister Theresa May should begin formal talks for the UK to leave the EU "as soon as possible", Brexit campaigner Iain Duncan Smith says.

Cosmetic surgery clinics which are not up to standard could be named under new government proposals.

Turkey's president says so-called Islamic State is likely to be behind a bomb attack on a Kurdish wedding in Gaziantep, as the death toll rises to 50.

Explosions are heard at the scene of a fire that has destroyed a secondary school in West Sussex.

A mother and son who died after getting into difficulty in the sea off Aberdeen are named by police.