The UK will appoint a new envoy to oversee a plan to ramp up the production of weapons and ammunition, which is now a "national priority", the foreign secretary has revealed.

The 69-year-old mother of four babies who were found dead in a freezer in the US city of Boston will not face criminal charges.

Madeleine McCann's parents said their daughter's absence "aches" and they are still "living in limbo" as they mark 17 years since she vanished.

At least 29 people have been killed in floods in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, in what has been described as "the most critical flooding recorded in history" by local authorities.

A young women's rights activist from Afghanistan recently left the country and travelled to Iran.

A scuba dive boat captain has been jailed for four years for criminal negligence over a fire that killed 34 people.