Inmates have lit fires at Australia's Christmas Island migrant detention centre in a "major disturbance", say officials, with staff withdrawn.

Nine new prisons will open in England and Wales - five by 2020 - under plans to close Victorian jails and sell them for housing, the government says.

An emergency meeting to discuss the crisis in the steel industry is to be held by European economy ministers at the request of the UK.

Global temperatures are set to rise more than 1C above pre-industrial levels in 2015, according to the UK's Met Office.

David Cameron tells the CBI conference he has no "emotional attachment" that would stop him backing a UK exit if his EU renegotiation fails.

A Team GB Paralympian says she was forced to drag herself from a Qatar Airways flight despite injury at the IPC World Championships.

The president of the German football federation (DFB) resigns over claims surrounding a payment to Fifa.

The government's energy policy changes since the general election are likely to increase CO2 emissions, according to analysis by BBC News.