Detectives searching for a serving police officer who has been missing for six days arrest a man on suspicion of murder and are searching a property.

Cyprus has agreed to extradite to Egypt the man accused of hijacking an EgyptAir plane last week, reports say.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir tells the BBC he will step down in 2020 when his current term ends, and denies recent reports of abuses in Darfur.

The former managing director of Leeds United David Haigh says he was mistreated and beaten while in prison for fraud in Dubai.

A member of the jury at the Hillsborough inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans is discharged for medical reasons.

A four-year-old boy from the UK has drowned in a swimming pool in Spain, the Foreign Office says.

President Putin denies "any element of corruption" over the Panama Papers leaks, and says his opponents are trying to destabilise Russia.

A spike in the number of deaths in England and Wales last year was due to an increase in dementia and respiratory diseases such as flu among older people, according to official figures.