Firms and charities are to be offered a payment-by-results scheme to try to get 55,000 "Neet" teenagers in England into work, education or training.

Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being questioned by French police as a suspect in a prostitution ring inquiry, prosecutors say.

The UK's first helpline for Muslim victims of faith crime will help gather information vital to establishing how widespread the problem is, say Faith Matters, the non-profit group setting it up.

A terrifying sequence of events led up to a football player's death on an off-road driving trip, a sheriff says.

Over two-thirds of people do not trust the government's handling of the NHS, a poll commissioned for BBC 5 Live suggests.

Samba school celebrates UK's capital at Rio carnival

News websites will be asked to do more to address potential hate crime as part of plans for a more "integrated" English society, the government says.

British Gas is offering £50 to anyone who can pass on the name of an elderly person or a family on benefits who needs to have their home insulated.