Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is accused of promoting tax avoidance "on an industrial scale", in a report by a committee of MPs.

Huge changes to the way the NHS in England works have been "disastrous" and distracted from patient care, a damning report by a think tank says.

Jordan says its air strikes on Islamic State targets are "the beginning of our retaliation" for the killing of a captured army pilot.

Beleaguered Australian PM Tony Abbott faces a challenge to his leadership after Liberal MPs initiate a party vote next week.

The Army must do more to recruit black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) personnel, its top officer says.

French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold talks in Russia to try to end renewed fighting in east Ukraine.

Police have spent about £10m providing a 24-hour guard at the Ecuadorean embassy in London since Wikileaks founder Julian Assange claimed asylum there.

The number of people with mental health illnesses being detained in police cells is a "scandal", and the practice must end, MPs say.