Japan is bracing for the arrival of a powerful typhoon, Vongfong, which officials have said will be the strongest storm to hit the country this year.

A memorial service for Alan Henning, who was murdered by Islamic State militants in Syria, is to take place in Manchester.

A "specialist" team of 12 UK soldiers are training Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence says.

One in 10 requests for web links to be removed from search results under European "right to be forgotten" laws have come from the UK, Google says.

Labour understands public concerns about the "downsides" of immigration and will toughen its approach, deputy leader Harriet Harman says.

Pipe bombs, 500kg of fertiliser and home-made explosives packs were among items found during a search of a farm in County Fermanagh, police have said.

A top US health official says a mistake was clearly made by staff treating a man who died of Ebola in Texas, resulting in one of them becoming infected.

Influential Brazilian environmentalist Marina Silva backs opposition candidate Aecio Neves against Dilma Rousseff in the presidential poll run-off.