Police name Ross Truett Ashley, a student at a nearby school, as the gunman who shot a campus police officer at Virginia Tech on Thursday.

Engineers are working into the night to reconnect thousands of homes left without electricity by severe storms in Scotland.

Some of Europe's top insurance companies have been warned their credit rating could be downgraded as a result of the European financial crisis.

There are appeals for calm in the Democratic Republic of Congo as disputed elections threaten to plunge the volatile Central African nation into chaos.

Two men are charged over a £1m email scam that took money from the bank accounts of hundreds of students who had government loans.

Several thousand Haitians take part in a protest demanding compensation from the UN, who they accuse of triggering a cholera outbreak.

A report into the death of a prisoner who killed himself suggests he was moved him from a jail - where he felt safe - because an inspection was due.

Playwright Alan Bennett says budding working-class writers are being blocked from following in his footsteps by university tuition fees.