A man and a woman have died following a fire in a top-floor tenement flat in Dundee.

Volkswagen's top executive in the US steps down nearly six months after the German carmaker became engulfed in the diesel emissions scandal.

Brazilian prosecutors are filing charges against ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a money laundering probe, officials say.

The mass slaughter of rhinos increases for a sixth consecutive year, despite a drive to fight poachers by various means.

David Cameron is to make his economic case for EU membership as 150 scientists warn that leaving the EU would be a "disaster for research".

Retired Chilean General Sergio Arellano Stark, who lead an army death squad in the aftermath of the 1973 military coup, dies aged 94.

The pace of house price rises will slow when tax changes "take the heat out" of interest from investors, surveyors suggest.

North Korea launches two short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast into the sea, South Korea's military says.