Three doctors in Liberia with Ebola who have taken an experimental drug are showing remarkable signs of improvement, a minister says.

The Islamic State militant group releases a video online purporting to show the killing of US journalist James Foley.

At least 27 people are killed in landslides caused by heavy rain that buried houses in Japan's Hiroshima prefecture, officials say.

Two out of nine members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted to raise interest earlier this month, the first time in three years policymakers have done so.

Legendary Indian yoga guru BKS Iyengar, who developed the Iyengar form of yoga, dies in the western city of Pune aged 95.

A total of £19.1bn is advanced to homebuyers in July, the Council of Mortgage Lenders says, amid warnings that the property market may face headwinds.

Two-thirds of the new jobs created since the financial crisis have been as a result of people becoming self-employed, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Ukrainian government and rebel forces both claim control of a small town after fierce fighting, as the death toll among civilians mounts.