A false missile alert was broadcast in Hawaii urging people to take shelter.

Schoolchildren from Kirton Primary in Boston run their own bank with its own currency to learn about saving money.

A man was filmed jumping from a hijacked EgyptAir plane cockpit window shortly before the hijacker surrendered.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has said that the hijacking of the plane that landed at Larnaca was not linked to terrorism.

The FBI has managed to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino gunman without Apple's help, ending a court case, the US justice department says.

With so-called Islamic State militants active in Egypt's Sinai, Israeli troops are on alert for attacks just across the border.

The BBC gains exclusive access in Aleppo province, where Kurdish forces have seized most of the border with Turkey from Islamic State fighters.

Police shot an armed man as he tried to enter the Capitol building visitor centre in Washington DC.

Birmingham's new £189m library had to shed staff and reduce hours within two years of opening.

A fire has broken out in a tower block in the city of Ajman in the United Arab Emirates.

The parents of Summer Grant, seven, who died when the bouncy castle she was playing on blew away have been paying tribute to her.

The BBC's disability news correspondent, Nikki Fox, has been to the camp to see how those with a disability, who are some of the most vulnerable, survive.

The family of an RAF flight officer relives their father's wartime tale of survival.

Wind gusts of up to 105 mph (170 kph) from Storm Katie have caused Gatwick-bound flights to be diverted, and damage across London.