Residents of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, are told to stay indoors after flooding kills eight people and causes a number of zoo animals to escape.

The European Space Agency says its comet lander, Philae, has woken up and contacted Earth.

US authorities are investigating a gun and bomb attack targeting Dallas police headquarters which ended with the suspect being shot dead.

Malfunctioning household appliances caused almost 12,000 fires in Britain in just over three years, research by consumer group Which? finds.

A British woman jailed in Malaysia for taking her clothes off on a mountain is back in the UK.

About 2,000 people march in Macedonia's capital Skopje demanding equal rights for the country's Albanian minority, amid political turmoil.

A South African court grants an order stopping Sudan's Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country until a ruling on an ICC warrant for his arrest.

A mother who went on the run with her three-year-old son for more than two weeks says she will never give up on trying to keep her "beautiful baby".