By Fiona StalkerBBC Scotland reporter
Richard Selley spoke to the BBC about his decision to end his lifeEleven terminally-ill people in Scotland every week are suffering in pain as they die, according to a new report by a group campaigning for assisted death to be legalised.
Dignity in Dying said even with high levels of palliative care, hundreds of patients still had no relief from their pain at the end of life. Read More...
By Frank GardnerBBC security correspondent
ReutersChina has reacted with predictable anger to this week's official announcement of the so-called Aukus pact.
The details, unveiled on Monday in San Diego, bind together Australia, the UK and the US in a far-reaching defence and security alliance aimed at confronting Chinese military expansion in the Indo-Pacific region.
"Going down a dangerous road", "disregarding the concerns of the international community" and even "risking a new arms race and nuclear proliferation" Read More...
A former Pentagon police officer who fatally shot two men in a car driving away from him in a dark parking lot outside his Maryland condo building was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday after emotional testimony from the victims’ friends and family.
“You didn’t care about anything,” Danielle Williams told the shooter, David Dixon, seated just 10 feet away inside a Montgomery County courtroom. “You took them away. You didn’t even give them a chance. Read More...