A thanksgiving service will be held later for a couple who died after a lorry shed a load of timber as they were walking along a road.

A man who ran on to the pitch and punched a Stevenage player after the team's FA Cup tie win over Newcastle United is jailed for 12 weeks.

Astronomers say Scotland may get good views of the Northern Lights over the next few days after the sun unleashed a giant solar flare.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood leads the way for this year's Bafta video game awards with seven nominations.

The government is to set out how it intends to overhaul the welfare system to try to make work pay better and to tackle the "benefit culture".

Police move into a square in Bahrain's capital, Manama, using tear gas against crowds to clear protesters camped there, with at least two people reported dead.

The European Court of Justice is to rule on whether UK football fans can still watch major events on free-to-air TV.

Hundreds of anti-government protesters clash with police and pro-government supporters in the Libyan city of Benghazi, amid ongoing unrest in the region.