A fourth night of unprecedented riots in Stockholm sees unrest spread around the city, with a restaurant and up to 40 cars burnt.

Robert Redford receives a standing ovation for his performance in his survival-at-sea epic All Is Lost at a Cannes Film Festival screening.

The sister of an IRA victim says she is 'more hopeful' the SDLP will not block a bill that would prevent former prisoners, guilty of serious offences, from becoming Stormont special advisers.

A bomb planted in a rickshaw has killed at least 12 people in Quetta in south-west Pakistan, officials say.

A railroad bridge across the Colorado River between San Saba and Lometa in the US state of Texas burned down and collapsed.