The governor of Pakistan's Balochistan province denounces intelligence failures as the death toll in a sectarian bombing in Quetta rises to 81.

Councils looking for cheap food contracts are to blame for driving down meat quality, the boss of Iceland says, amid the continuing horsemeat scandal.

Marking 150 years of humanitarian aid, the Red Cross says it faces unprecedented challenges due to the complex nature of 21st Century warfare.

Nato says it backs President Hamid Karzai's order banning Afghan security forces from calling in foreign air strikes in residential areas.

A British backpacker who went missing after setting out on a run in the Australian outback says he was on his "last legs" when he was found.

The parents of missing girl Madeleine McCann say proposals to underpin new press regulations with a Royal Charter are "a compromise of a compromise".

A mass for gay and lesbian Catholics is being held for the last time in central London because the Church says it goes against its views on sexuality.

Tens of thousands of pilgrims attend St Peter's Square in Rome for one of the final public appearances of Pope Benedict XVI.