Firms should be flexible with staffing during the Euro 2016 football tournament, which begins on 10 June, the conciliation service Acas says.

A flotilla of EU ships rescue more than 600 migrants from smugglers' boats off Libya, bringing the weekly total to at least 13,000.

The French and German leaders are to mark the 100th anniversary of Verdun, the longest battle of World War One - and one of its most brutal.

The NHS could save millions of pounds if families and doctors were offered mediation when they disagreed on a treatment, a leading consultant says.

The German airline, Lufthansa, says it will suspend flights to Venezuela from next month due to growing economic difficulties in the country.

A Chinese firm apologises over a now notorious advert in which a black man is stuffed into a washing machine and emerges a light-skinned Asian.

After a secret German WW2 code machine is found on eBay, the National Museum of Computing is asking people to search for its motor.

Zoo officials shoot dead a gorilla after it grabbed a four-year-old boy who fell into its enclosure in the US city of Cincinnati.