An upgraded "underwear bomb" plot designed by al-Qaeda in Yemen to blow up a plane bound for the US is disrupted, US officials say.

More than 12,000 cash machines in the UK are set to allow charitable donations from this summer, the government announces.

Al-Jazeera says it has been forced to close its English-language bureau in Beijing after China carries out a rare expulsion of a foreign journalist.

Greece's far-left will try to form an anti-austerity government, after parties backing an international bailout fail to assemble a coalition.

A tornado is reported in parts of Oxfordshire during a storm which causes damage to trees and roof tiles.

BBC News has learned that tenants in east London are being evicted from their homes as landlords attempt to cash in on the Olympics.

World champion Ronnie O'Sullivan says he will retire unless snooker chief Barry Hearn stops "blackmailing" him and his fellow players.

A mother who subjected her two youngest children to five years of cruelty, including forcing them into unpaid work and locking them in freezing bedrooms, is jailed.