UK

An 18-year-old has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman and two teenagers in Luton. 

Flutter Entertainment, the owner of Paddy Power, is closing in on a £2bn swoop for the consumer operations of Playtech, the gambling technology group. 

The yellow-eyed penguin has won New Zealand's fiercely-contested Bird Of The Year competition - with campaigners hoping its victory will prompt a revival of the species. 

A mum-of-one who lost her leg in a hit-and-run crash is suing the driver for £1m to pay for a lifetime of prosthetics. 

The prime minister has said it is "very important... that the rules are followed" after becoming embroiled in a row about a donor paying for his wife's clothes. 

Germany has started checks at borders with five more European countries in an effort to crack down on "irregular" migration and guard against Islamist threats. 

Thousands of England's flood defences designed to protect people's homes and businesses are inadequate, government data suggests. 

The Criminal Bar Association has warned the government against increasing sentencing powers for magistrates, saying the "knee-jerk reaction" would "simply make things worse" for overcrowded prisons. 

Huw Edwards has been given a six-month jail sentence suspended for two years for accessing indecent images of children as young as seven. 

A woman has been charged with the murder of another woman in London.