The final trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens has debuted online and is met with considerable acclaim.

An alleged member of a New York crime family goes on trial over an airport heist immortalised in the gangster film Goodfellas.

South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is released under house arrest nearly one year after he was jailed for killing his girlfriend, prison officials say.

Ohio has put executions on hold until 2017 as the US state struggles to acquire the lethal drugs needed to carry out death sentences.

China's President Xi Jinping will address MPs and Lords and attend a banquet with the Queen, on the first full day of his state visit to the UK.

Canada's Liberal Party comprehensively wins general elections, ending nine years of Conservative rule, partial results show.

A national register of drones and their owners is urgently needed, the US transport secretary has said.

Slovenia says it has allowed most of the 5,000 people who were stranded in wet and muddy conditions on its border with Croatia to enter the country.