Network Rail workers have voted in favour of a UK-wide strike in a row over pay, the Rail, Maritime and Transport union says.

Kevin Pietersen is told he will not be recalled by England despite a career-best 326 for Surrey, BBC Sport understands.

Greece's finance minister says his country's financial situation is "terribly urgent" and the crisis could come to a head in a couple of weeks.

Picasso's Women of Algiers becomes the most expensive painting to sell at auction, going for $179.3m at Christie's in New York.

David Cameron says the Conservatives are "the real party of working people" as he prepares to chair the first all-Conservative cabinet for 18 years.

There has been an "alarming" rise in the number of working-age men and women in England having strokes in recent years, a charity warns.

French President Francois Hollande meets revolutionary leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, in the first visit to Cuba by a Western leader since the 1980s.

Royal Dutch Shell wins approval from the US Department of Interior to explore for oil in the Arctic.