US soldier Robert Bales avoids the death penalty for murdering 16 Afghan civilians last year, after a military judge accepts his guilty plea.

Laws governing whether organisations should be classified as charities are flawed and should be revised, a group of MPs say.

The US is collecting telephone records of tens of millions of Americans on a daily basis, according to an alleged secret court order published by the Guardian newspaper.

A failed plot to carry out a terror attack on an EDL rally could have sparked a "tit for-tat spiral of violence and terror", a court has heard.

A woman who was filmed shouting racist abuse at passengers on a London tram pleads guilty to the offence.

A 30-year-old man has been charged with terror offences after being arrested earlier on Wednesday in east London, Scotland Yard has said.

Local communities in England are to be given more powers to block onshore wind farms, but also offered greater incentives to accept them, ministers say.

The UK is to restart the transfer of Afghan detainees captured by British forces to the Afghan justice system later this month, the Ministry of Defence says.