Influential British theatre and film director Peter Brook has died at the age of 97, according to reports in French media.

A third officer has died after a shooting in the US when police tried to execute an arrest warrant on a man accused of domestic violence.

Part of the Red Sea coast has been closed after an Austrian woman was killed in a shark attack.

Russia claims it has taken full control of Lysychansk, Ukraine's last bastion in the eastern province of Luhansk.

A Puerto Rican judge has issued a restraining order against Ricky Martin, police have said.

American forensic experts are going to analyse the bullet that killed an Al Jazeera journalist in May as the Palestinian Authority attempts to resolve a standoff with Israel over her death.

At the end of three days of talks and speeches from Taliban leaders and Islamic Scholars at the Grand Council meeting in Kabul there was a sense of deflation and betrayal.

Germans have been warned to prepare for a possible shortage of natural gas this winter amid fears that Russia could cut off supplies.

An academic-led study of astronauts has revealed the devastating impact space travel has on the human skeleton.

The Foreign Office has condemned the exploitation of prisoners of war after two British men held by Kremlin forces in eastern Ukraine were charged with "mercenary activities".