One in five people with motor neurone disease waits more than a year to see a brain specialist for help with diagnosis, a snapshot survey by the MND Association suggests.

The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel is to be officially opened in Switzerland, after almost two decades of construction work.

An editorial in North Korean state media says Donald Trump is a "wise politician" whose victory in US elections could be good for the North.

An open-ended rail strike is under way in France, with many services cancelled, just nine days before the Euro 2016 football tournament kicks off.

Forty tiger cub bodies are found in a freezer at a famous Thai Buddhist temple that is being closed down amid accusations of trafficking and abuse.

Carl Frampton and other high-profile fighters criticise the decision to allow professional boxers to compete at the Olympics.

A Chinese teenager is found hiding in the cargo hold of an Emirates passenger jet that had flown from Shanghai to Dubai.

A French ship detects signals likely to have come from the black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, killing all 66 people on board.