Reverend Libby Lane has been announced as the first female bishop for the Church of England, just a month after a historic change to canon law.
A march against "Islamisation of the West" took place in Dresden yesterday, with about 10,000 people turning out in the eastern German city.
The European Court of Human Rights says France violated the rights of Somali pirates who had attacked French ships and has ordered compensation for them over judicial delays.
Thousands of people in Germany yesterday attended the funeral of a young woman who was killed defending two girls from harassment.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to suspend a critical food aid scheme for more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees because of a funding crisis.
Thousands of students protesting against tuition fees and graduate debt yesterday staged a massive demonstration through central London.
Childhood obesity in the UK has reached ‘alarming’ levels with up to a third being dangerously fat, warn doctors.
A High Court judge has banned five men from approaching girls in public places after Birmingham social workers and police raised concerns about the welfare of a vulnerable teenager who is in local authority care.
A notorious police killer is to be released from prison in what has been called a "scandalous, hurtful and abhorrent decision".
An advertising campaign showing a woman's breasts has been blamed for more than 500 traffic accidents in one day.
A United Nations medical worker infected with Ebola has died at a hospital in Germany.
Doctors at the hospital in Leipzig said the man, 56, originally from Sudan, died despite receiving experimental drugs to treat the virus.
The outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people since March - mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria.
The World Health Organization says the outbreak is the "the most severe, acute health emergency in modern times".
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Turkey has agreed to let the US use its military bases for operations in Iraq and Syria, US National Security Adviser Susan Rice says.
Investigations are under way at a hospital in Madrid after a Spanish nurse became the first person known to have contracted the deadly Ebola virus outside West Africa.
Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have paraded dozens of captured Ukrainian soldiers before a jeering crowd, in mockery of Independence Day celebrations in the capital.
Six women have been convicted of operating a "pyramid" scheme in which thousands of investors lost money.
Members of the Ukrainian parliament have ratified an agreement with the EU, moving their country towards the West over half a year after its pro-Russian leader was overthrown from power as a result of mass anti-government protests.
Both sides in the Scottish referendum debate are making their final pitch to voters on the last day of campaigning.
The first British person to contract Ebola in the current outbreak in Africa is to return to the country where he was infected in order to help others fight the disease.
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