Labour says it cannot promise to renationalise Royal Mail, which is due to float on the stock market, but will impose new customer service obligations.

Australia'a new Prime Minister Tony Abbott is to begin a visit to Indonesia, amid tensions between the two nations over his tough asylum policies.

Kenyan security chiefs are to be questioned by MPs about alleged intelligence failings over the deadly Westgate shopping centre attack.

A quality assurance scheme for advocates in criminal trials in England and Wales comes into operation.

The retrial of Amanda Knox over the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher is to open in Italy, but the American will not be in court.

The UK economy is recovering – but how balanced is the growth that is being generated?

Class A drugs should be decriminalised and drug addicts "treated and cared for not criminalised", according to a senior UK police officer.

The prospect of UKIP signing up to an electoral pact with the Conservatives in the next general election is "not on the agenda", according to the party's candidate in the Eastleigh by-election.