Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs says she wants to see more diversity in Oscar nominations, responding to a row about this year's nominees.

Pope Francis celebrates Mass in Tacloban, where more than 7,000 died in Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, on the second day of his Philippines visit.

Twenty-one people are confirmed dead, with one still missing, after a tugboat capsized on the Yangtze river in eastern China, state media report.

The Tories should be more worried about Labour's Ed Miliband than UKIP's Nigel Farage during the election campaign, former party chairman Lord Patten tells the BBC.

A man appears in court accused of arson following a series of fires in Oxfordshire, including one that caused major damage to council headquarters.

Firefighters are still tackling a major blaze which broke out on Saturday afternoon at a fish factory in Peterhead.

Greek police arrest four people over alleged links to a jihadist terror plot in Belgium which has put that country on a heightened state of alert.

Brazil says it is "outraged" by Indonesia's decision to execute one its citizens - believed to be the first Brazilian to be executed abroad.