Conservative US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies aged 79 putting the balance of the highest court centre stage in the presidential election campaign.

The Church of England defends a tweet it sent, praying for secularist Richard Dawkins after he suffered a stroke.

A convicted child sex offender who has been the subject of a manhunt since going missing on Wednesday hands himself in to police.

Turkey shells a Kurdish militia in northern Syria and demands it retreat from territory it has seized, prompting concern in Washington.

Idris Elba, Eddie Redmayne, Dame Maggie Smith and Kate Winslet are among the British stars hoping to win a Bafta on Sunday.

Front-runner Donald Trump and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush disagree sharply over foreign policy in the latest Republican presidential debate.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan is understood to be looking to the US for the next head of England's schools inspectorate Ofsted.

Four British rowers trying to cross the Atlantic are rescued after their boat capsizes and they lose their oars.