BBC Director General Tony Hall tells a parliamentary select committee that a Panorama programme containing claims against Comic Relief, will be broadcast if the allegations are proved to be true.

A Norwegian family is trying to trace a British woman who placed a message in a bottle in July 1996.

CIA drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen are responsible for unlawful killings, some of which could amount to war crimes, human rights groups say.

The singer Noel Harrison, best known for his hit The Windmills Of Your Mind, dies at his home in Devon, aged 79.

More than a million complaints about payment protection insurance have been made to the financial ombudsman, latest figures show.

The number of observed exoplanets - those orbiting distant stars - passes 1,000 and of these, 12 might be habitable, scientists claim.

Arab and Western foreign ministers are to meet Syrian opposition officials in London in an effort to persuade them to attend peace talks next month.

Serving sizes of some foods have doubled in the last twenty years, according to a new report by the British Heart Foundation. So what is the ideal portion size?