Inmates have lit fires at Australia's Christmas Island migrant detention centre in a "major disturbance", say officials, with staff withdrawn.

Nine new prisons will open in England and Wales - five by 2020 - under plans to close Victorian jails and sell them for housing, the government says.

An emergency meeting to discuss the crisis in the steel industry is to be held by European economy ministers at the request of the UK.

A Team GB Paralympian says she was forced to drag herself from a Qatar Airways flight despite injury at the IPC World Championships.

A 14-year-old boy and two men are charged with the murder of a man who was stabbed to death in north-west London.

The British music industry invested nearly £500m in new music in 2014, with the signing up of new artists by major labels up 30%, data suggests.

One of the most controversial cases of alleged rendition involving the UK - brought by a former Libyan dissident - comes before the Supreme Court later.

Four government departments have provisionally agreed to cut their spending by an average of 30% over the next four years, George Osborne is to announce.