Television presenter Caroline Flack and partner Pasha Kovalev are voted winners of Strictly Come Dancing, beating singers Frankie Bridge and Simon Webbe.

A gunman shoots dead two police officers sitting inside a patrol car in New York before killing himself, officials say.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby tells Desert Island Discs he is trying to bridge a split in the Church over same-sex marriage.

Ex-armed forces members who are sent to prison will get more support following a review of how they are treated, the Ministry of Justice says.

Australian authorities charge a woman in the northern city of Cairns with the murder of seven of her children and her niece.

The diplomat and journalist John Freeman, best known for his interviews for BBC television series Face to Face, dies at the age of 99.

The US says North Korea must admit "culpability" for a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures after North Korea suggests a joint inquiry into the attack.

Former three-time heavyweight champion boxer Muhammad Ali has been taken to hospital with a mild case of pneumonia, his spokesman says.