Hundreds of homes in Northern Ireland are left without power as Storm Frank hits, while north-west England and parts of Scotland are braced for further heavy rain.

The United Nations refugee agency says more than one million refugees and migrants reached Europe by sea in 2015.

A top aide to North Korea leader Kim Jong-un, responsible for ties with South Korea, has died in a car crash, state media says.

Margaret Thatcher feared teenagers would be "harmed' by an Aids awareness campaign which detailed how the disease spread, but was overruled, documents show.

David Cameron's policy chief apologises for any offence caused by remarks he made about black communities days after the 1985 Broadwater Farm riot.

US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump says he is planning to spend $2m a week on campaign advertising.

Ten of millions of people will face hunger, water shortages and disease in 2016 as the impacts of a powerful El Nino linger into 2016.

Protests are growing against the conviction in Thailand of two Burmese men for the murder of a pair of British tourists.