Image caption Sam Gyimah faced questions from MPs on support for disadvantaged students The universities minister says he could have been “thrown out of university” as a student at Oxford because he was unable to pay the rent. But Sam Gyimah says his college converted the rent into a loan, …

Image copyright AFP Image caption The body of Sebastian Woodroffe was found buried in a shallow grave A judge in Peru has ordered the arrest of two suspects in the lynching of a 41-year-old Canadian man in the remote Amazon region last week. A video uploaded to social media showed …

Image copyright Screenshot/Pear Video Image caption A video circulating online showed bystanders watching as a three-storey building went up in flames A fire at a karaoke bar in the southern Chinese city of Yingde has killed 18 people and left five others injured. The fire broke out inside the three-storey …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Australian authorities say the boy was found in Bali on 17 March Australian police say they will review how a 12-year-old boy travelled alone to Bali after he had a row with his parents and used their credit card. The boy, from Sydney, booked …

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“Anybody in his way, he would hit”: Witnesses recall Toronto van incident Canadian police are questioning the suspected driver of a rented van that ploughed into pedestrians in northern Toronto on Monday, killing 10 and injuring 15. Alek Minassian, 25, was not …

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Mr Bush greeted mourners at his wife’s funeral on Saturday and was hospitalised on Sunday Former US President George H W Bush has been hospitalised with an infection the day after his wife Barbara’s funeral. US media report that he is in intensive care. In …

Image copyright Reuters Madonna has lost a court bid to stop a former friend auctioning off intimate items including love letters and a hairbrush with strands of her hair. A New York judge threw out the pop star’s lawsuit against Darlene Lutz, saying the statute of limitation to recover her …

Image caption The Trussell Trust food banks provided 1.3 million packages of three-day supplies of food last year The biggest network of food banks in the UK says it provided record levels of “emergency food supplies” last year. The annual figures from the Trussell Trust charity show a 13% increase, …

Image copyright Nashville PD Image caption Suspect Travis Reinking pictured after his arrest in Nashville A man suspected of killing four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee has been arrested by police in Nashville. Police said Travis Reinking, 29, was caught in a wooded area. He allegedly opened fire …

Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption Discrimination in recruitment has contributed to a decrease in the proportion of Chinese women working, Human Rights Watch says Leading Chinese tech firms have pledged to address gender discrimination in job ads after a damning report by campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW). Sexist recruitment …