Vincent Pastore, who played Tony Soprano's best friend turned FBI informant on HBO's prestige drama The Sopranos, has died aged 80.

A tourist plane has crashed in Peru, leaving 13 people dead, according to local authorities.

Prince William has led tributes to a renowned mountaineer who has died following an avalanche in Pakistan.

Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in Pride events in the UK and mainland Europe, a week after a deadly extremist attack on a Pride festival in Berlin.

In the end it wasn't close. Labour's Bev Craig comfortably held the Greater Manchester (GM) mayoralty, vacated last month by Andy Burnham.

Australia has defended its world-first ban on ‌social media for under-16s after a study found there had been little drop in use months after the ban took effect.

A boxer from the tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu has won her country's first Commonwealth Games medal without winning a fight.

Police are hunting for a man who escaped custody before a court appearance in Liverpool.