It is set to be the next big thing for gadget lovers everywhere. But users of Google Glass, a high-tech pair of spectacles with in-built hands-free video camera and internet access, are being given some basic advice – take them off when visiting public conveniences.

The father of former Premier League and England footballers Gary and Phil Neville will be charged with sexual assault.

Police in England say they have new leads in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who vanished in Portugal in 2007.

A woman running a private banking operation in China has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of defrauding investors.

Two FBI special agents on the agency's elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident in Virginia.

A couple suspected of being terrorists were shot dead after using their baby as a human shield when they were surrounded by police in Kenya.

Two tourists died and 23 others were injured when two hot air balloons collided in mid-air during a sightseeing tour in Turkey, causing one to crash.

A British father is being questioned in France on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two children, local police said.