Cocaine seized from a tug in the North Sea could have been worth more than £500m - believed to be the biggest single class A seizure in the UK.

Ex-Army chief Lord Bramall has been questioned by police investigating allegations of historical child abuse, the BBC understands.

Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander says the Tories proposed to "slash" child benefit while the two parties were in government together.

The number of older carers in England is rising, with signs the responsibility of looking after loved ones is damaging their health, research suggests.

After a decade in space and four years in orbit, Nasa's Messenger spacecraft will end its mission on Thursday by crashing into the surface of Mercury.

A plane carrying 120 Britons caught up in the Nepal earthquake arrives back in the UK, as the Foreign Office investigates reports a second Briton has died.

A teenage boy is rescued in Nepal's capital after surviving five days in quake rubble, as bad weather hampers delivery of aid to remote villages.

A court in Pakistan has jailed 10 men for life for the 2012 gun attack on education activist Malala Yousafzai.