Torrential rains have caused major flooding the San Antonio area in Texas, leaving a person dead with more than 100 people rescued.

Three new arrests have been made over this week's murder of a British soldier.

There is a manhunt in Paris after a soldier was had his throat and neck slashed in the street with a box cutter.

Masses of flowers now cover the spot in Woolwich where soldier Lee Rigby was murdered in cold blood this week.

Sweden's riots have now spread beyond the capital.

Three boatloads of suspected asylum seekers with more than 200 people on board have been intercepted near Australia's Christmas Island.

Britain's intelligence agencies are under scrutiny, after it emerged spies tried to recruit one of the two men accused of murdering soldier Lee Rigby.

There have been reports of an apparent copycat attack on a soldier in Paris.

A British zoo worker mauled in a tiger attack has died of her injuries, police say.

The scare which diverted a Pakistan Airlines plane and brought it in to land with a fighter escort, looks to have been caused by bad behaviour and not a terror threat.

A member of the Spanish Royal Family is being investigated for fiddling her taxes.