At least 50 people, including 13 children, are killed in a town in Syria's restive province of Homs, opposition activists say, calling it a "massacre".

One of the final opinion polls ahead of Ireland's referendum next week on whether to ratify the EU Fiscal Treaty suggests it is likely to be a 'yes' vote.

Latest figures reveal that councils in England and Wales have received almost 9,500 road closure applications for Diamond Jubilee street parties.

IMF head Christine Lagarde urges Greeks to pay taxes, saying she worried more about the plight of sub-Saharan Africa than the crisis-hit European nation.

BBC Scotland publishes further evidence about a suspected conflict of interest concerning the administrators of Rangers.

The Home Office draws up contingency plans to cope with a possible large increase in immigration from Greece if the euro collapses.

Thousands of UK websites are expected to be in breach of a law that dictates what they can log about visitors.

The man held over the 1979 vanishing of six-year-old Etan Patz in New York is charged with one count of second-degree murder.