The prime minister is facing a direct legal challenge over changes to the code which sets out rules and standards for ministers in public office.

Candidates' names will be removed from university application forms from 2017, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

The way cycling deaths are treated by police and prosecutors may need to change, the former Director of Public Prosecutions tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the TalkTalk hacking attack, Scotland Yard has said.

Peers are to decide whether to delay the government's proposed cuts to tax credits or scupper them entirely in a series of votes in the House of Lords.

A whale-watching boat with 27 people on board sinks off the coast of British Columbia in Canada, killing at least four people, emergency bodies say.

A suspect is arrested in Belgium after a masked man tried to crash his car through the gates of an army barracks near the city of Namur.

More than 150 people are reported killed after a major earthquake hits north-east Afghanistan and Pakistan, with many more injured.