Labour MPs have been urged to stay away from a vote next month over Conservative plans for an in-out referendum on the EU in 2017.

HM Revenue and Customs should "fully investigate" Google after information from whistleblowers "undermined" the firm's defence of its tax arrangements, MPs say.

Female genital mutilation is not being properly tackled in the UK as police and social workers are afraid of being seen as politically incorrect, MPs say.

Thousands of children have been killed in unrest in Syria since March 2011, according to a new UN report on children and armed conflict.

A jellyfish sting forces Australian athlete Chloe McCardel to abandon her attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida without a protective shark cage.

The number of people participating in sport at least once a week falls by 200,000, according to Sport England.

Payment-by-result schemes supervising people released from prison have seen a slight drop in reoffending rates, initial figures from the Ministry of Justice show.

Dale Cregan will spend the rest of his life in jail for four murders including two police officers in Greater Manchester