An outspoken British member of a Roman Catholic commission on sexual abuse refuses to quit, denouncing his treatment by the Vatican as "outrageous".

Nearly 150 oil platforms in the UK North Sea are expected to be scrapped over the next 10 years, according to industry analysts.

A total of 132 people remain trapped under the rubble of an apartment block in the Taiwanese city of Tainan after Saturday's earthquake, officials say.

A former head of the French Foreign Legion is arrested with about 20 other protesters at a banned anti-Islam rally in the port of Calais.

North Korea fires a long-range rocket in defiance of international warnings, after announcing it intended to put an earth observation satellite into orbit.

The number of people reporting being raped by someone they met on a dating app or website has risen six-fold in five years to 184, official figures show.

The latest government attempt to improve the use of technology in the NHS in England is launched, with the aim of making services faster and more convenient.

Officials in the EU urge Turkey to let in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees trapped on its border after fleeing fighting.