The 21st Commonwealth Games officially get under way on the Gold Coast after a spectacular opening ceremony.

Li Wenzu is walking 100km to try to break 1,000 days of silence since China detained the lawyer.

Football has lost one of its most enduringly popular figures in Ray Wilkins, says chief football writer Phil McNulty.

The field contains up to 80 billion barrels of oil, dwarfing the Gulf kingdom's current reserves.

Former world champion Stuart Bingham becomes the second player to make a maximum 147 break at the China Open in Beijing this week.

Events around the US commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the civil rights champion.

They were patrolling off the South Australian coast when they noticed something behind them.

The UK's V&A museum offers to return on loan treasures seized 150 years ago during a military battle.

Watch highlights of the opening ceremony for the 2018 Commonwealth Games at the Carrera Stadium on the Gold Coast, Australia.

President Donald Trump declared last week that the US would "be coming out of Syria very soon".

He is "comfortable and in good spirits" after a successful hip operation, Buckingham Palace says.

The prime minister has revealed plans for sweeping reforms of the country's institutions.

A proposal for a new inquiry into the Salisbury poisoning fails at the chemical weapons watchdog.

Police say suspect Nasim Aghdam was the legal owner of the semi-automatic handgun she used.

A woman sues a fertility doctor after a genealogy website test result showed him to be her father.

A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, researchers say.

The social network says that one million of the people affected are thought to be UK-based.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he "doesn't understand" why his team's coach was attacked outside Anfield before their Champions League tie against Liverpool.

The new right-wing government's proposal will affect girls in nursery and primary schools.

Former England and Chelsea midfielder Ray Wilkins has died in hospital at the age of 61.

Ray Wilkins was a "genuinely lovely man" who was "liked by everybody", says former England striker Gary Lineker.