The "unexplained" death of a 15-year-old girl in Merseyside is being investigated by police.

First Minister Alex Salmond is to visit California in a bid to build on economic links and boost inward investment in Scotland.

Ministers say up to 300,000 families in England could benefit from plans to scrap council tax for so-called granny flats and ease rules on garage conversions.

Andy Murray expects a tight encounter when he meets Richard Gasquet in the French Open fourth round on Monday.

The number of people looking for work in Spain fell for the second month in a row in May to 4.71 million.

A two-year-old boy suffers serious facial injuries in an attack by a dog in the garden of a neighbour's house in Swindon.

America's former Olympic gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson retires after a knee injury rules her out of London 2012.

A soldier from The Yorkshire Regiment has been shot dead during a foot patrol in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.