The investigation into the deaths of 19 firefighters in an Arizona wildfire finds inadequate communication contributed to the disaster.

Two more men have been charged with murdering four members of a family in a house fire in Leicester.

US Senate Majority leader Harry Reid warns his Democratic-led chamber will reject a House Republican bill which aims to avert a government shutdown.

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake has struck south-west Pakistan, in a region where at least 400 people died in a quake earlier this week.

Dentists have found "striking" levels of bad teeth in athletes competing at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The flu vaccine is for the first time being offered to every child in Scotland, in the form of a nasal spray.

Class A drugs should be decriminalised and drug addicts "treated and cared for not criminalised", according to a senior UK police officer.

A letter urging Prime Minister David Cameron to get rid of work assessments for the disabled is signed by the dean of St Paul's Cathedral.