A victim of child sex abuse in North Wales, tells BBC Newsnight that his abusers included a leading Thatcher-era Conservative politician, and calls for a new investigation.

US presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney launch a last-gasp dash to win undecided voters, four days before the general election.

Activists and ex-political prisoners in Paraguay demonstrate against plans to repatriate the remains of former military ruler Gen Alfredo Stroessner.

How an Oxfordshire donkey was saved from slaughter to become a star of stage and screen.

Former minister Denis MacShane could not be prosecuted because House of Commons rules stopped letters being used against him, it emerges.

As winter approaches, many potential flu victims have not been vaccinated, according to new Department of Health figures.

An engineering diploma for teenagers downgraded in a shake-up of vocational qualifications is to be "reworked", the government announces.

Rebels in Syria say they have launched a major offensive to capture the key airbase of Taftanaz in the north of the country.