A six-year-old boy has died on a farm in County Armagh and authorities are understood to be investigating whether slurry gas was the cause.

Liverpool reject Arsenal's offer of £40m plus £1 for Luis Suarez, a total designed to activate a clause in the striker's contract.

Previous nominees Jim Crace and Colm Toibin make the 13-strong longlist for this year's Man Booker prize, described by the judges as "surely the most diverse" in the prize's history.

A Ryanair flight from Edinburgh to Alicante is forced to land at Glasgow Prestwick after being struck by lightning.

A 29-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman's body was found in a suitcase in north-west London.

Hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholics gather at Copacabana Beach in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro for the opening of the World Youth Day festival.

Two bodies are found by police divers searching the River Wear for two missing teenage girls.

Oxfam's income falls £17.6m to £367.9m in the year to 31 March with its two main sources of money, shops and fundraising, down on the previous year.