Senior local Conservatives are urging the prime minister to delay any Parliamentary decision on gay marriage until after the next election.

At least 16 people are killed as a police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk is attacked by a suicide bomber and gunmen, police say.

The family of Sasha Marsden, the 16-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a Blackpool alleyway, say her death has left a gap in their lives.

Eight more people are arrested over the fatal stabbing of a teenager who was attacked by a gang in central London last weekend.

Some welfare-to-work advisers are inappropriately telling the unemployed to become self-employed, a BBC investigation has found.

A physics prize for school students is to be launched in honour of world-renowned Scottish scientist Prof Peter Higgs.

Protests break out in Spanish cities after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy vowed not to resign over "false claims" that he received secret payments.

Syrian opposition leader Moaz al-Khatib is invited to Moscow during his first direct talks with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.