Home Office doctors gave the go ahead for experimental drug trials on children at two approved schools in the 1960s, National Archives files show.

Hundreds are expected to join a minute's silence near the site of the Shoreham air show disaster.

Drones carrying larges amounts of drugs and mobile phones are intercepted by police as they were being flown near a north London jail.

More than 200 schools built in Scotland under private finance schemes are at least partially owned by offshore investment funds, BBC Scotland finds.

Most victims of the suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding party in the Turkish city of Gaziantep were children, media reports say.

Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Denning pleads guilty to 21 child sex offences between 1969 and 1986, following a police inquiry into a popular teenage disco which ran for four decades in Surrey.

An Islamist rebel says he regrets destroying cultural and religious sites in Timbuktu, Mali, in a landmark trial at the International Criminal Court.

A crowd-funding campaign raises more than $40,000 to help Ethiopia's Olympic marathon medallist seek asylum after his anti-government protest.