A Danish butter magnate's collection of coins could fetch close to £60m on auction, a hundred years after he passed away.

A teenager who stabbed a British mother to death in Australia after breaking into her home has been jailed for 14 years.

A deluge of cold lava and mudslides have killed 43 people in Indonesia after monsoon rains triggered flash flooding.

Russia was able to open a new front in northeastern Ukraine because of delays in the supply of Western weapons to the frontline, the head of the region under attack has claimed.

The swimmer who was the first victim in the 1975 blockbuster Jaws has died. 

Elections bring out the best but also the worst of democracy.