Pope Francis has made his first trip out of Rome for seven months with a visit to Venice where he asked worshippers to "pray for me". 

Blackstone, the American private equity behemoth, is this weekend finalising a revised offer to buy the company which owns the music catalogues of Shakira and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Twenty soldiers have been killed in a huge explosion at a military base in southwestern Cambodia.

Two Russian journalists could face at least two years in prison after they were arrested on "extremism" charges, accused of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

A circus performer has injured themselves after falling from a "wheel of faith" during a stunt at Blackpool Tower.

A man has died following a parachute incident at an industrial estate in County Durham.

Prince Harry is returning to the UK next month for the first time since his rushed visit to see the King after his cancer diagnosis. 

The defection of an MP - who works as an NHS doctor - from the Tories to the Labour Party shows that only Sir Keir Starmer can be "trusted" with the health service, a shadow minister has claimed.

Ireland is pledging emergency legislation enabling it to send asylum seekers back to the UK.

Monzo, the fintech which has become one of Britain's biggest consumer banking groups, is this weekend putting the finishing touches to an expanded fundraising involving one of the world's best-known technology investors.