A 70-year-old man who shot a teenager in the neck is cleared of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

More than 80 events are set to take place later in protest over threatened library closures and cuts to services.

A man is charged with the attempted murder of two elderly men who were assaulted in the same area of north London within a month.

The UN-backed Global Fund Against Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria strengthens financial safeguards following allegations of corruption.

Cuban prosecutors charge detained US citizen Alan Gross with plotting against the state and say they will seek a 20-year jail term.

Climate change and mink could be among factors behind a decline in a species of duck, according to RSPB Scotland.

Around one million privately let homes in England are so substandard they are dangerous, says the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.

David Cameron will criticise "state multiculturalism" in his first speech as prime minister on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism.