Volkswagen's US boss makes a "sincere apology" to US lawmakers for installing "defeat devices" to cheat emissions tests on its diesel cars.

Spencer Stone, hailed as a hero after a French train terror attack, is in hospital after being stabbed in Sacramento, California.

Four Russian cruise missiles fired at Syria from the Caspian Sea landed on Iran, unnamed US officials say.

The New Horizons mission returns its first colour image of Pluto's atmospheric hazes and shows them to have a blue tinge.

Any claims the woman accused of Becky Watts' murder was ignorant of the teenager's gruesome death are a "ridiculous concept", a jury hears.

An American journalist is found guilty of helping hacktivist group Anonymous deface the website of the Los Angeles Times.

At least 13 people are reported to have been killed in air strikes that hit a wedding in a rebel-held town in Yemen.

An 18-year-old man is due in court charged with the murder of a Merseyside Police officer who died after being struck by a car.