The Children's Commissioner for England is to review how trafficked children are looked after when they are rescued in the UK, the Home Office says.

Scientists believe they have found a way to beat sleeping sickness by using a bacterium against the host that spreads the disease to humans - the tsetse fly.

Unnecessary secrecy risks jeopardising public confidence in the ticketing arrangements for the 2012 Olympics, warns the London Assembly.

Bristol and Birmingham top the areas of England where the government wants to convert primary schools into academies, the BBC discovers.

Argentina condemns a planned visit to the Falkland Islands by British MPs as another sign of the UK's "militarisation" of the dispute.

The prime minister is to use a speech in Edinburgh to launch what he calls a positive vision for the union between Scotland and the rest of the UK.

Ministers must "think creatively" about offering tax breaks to newspapers to help them through a "difficult" time of falling sales and revenue, a report by peers says.

Plans to impose penalties on students who pay off university loans early are to be abandoned, the government is expected to announce next week.