The number of people in the UK who will get cancer during their lifetime will increase to nearly half the population by 2020, a report suggests.

PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan returns to Turkey, telling supporters that nationwide protests border on illegality and must end immediately.

More than 200,000 extra doses of the MMR vaccine have been ordered by GPs in England since efforts to vaccinate one million children started.

Former armed forces personnel without degrees will have the chance to be fast-tracked into teaching in England under a new government programme.

Millions of people face losing libraries, sports centres and museums if "significant" further cuts are made to council budgets, but the government calls the claims "alarmist".

Glasgow City Council is fined £150,000 for the loss of two unencrypted laptops, one of which contained personal details of more than 20,000 people.

Prime Minister David Cameron is to tell a gathering of Conservative Party faithful that Scotland should face the future as part of a United Kingdom.

Laws controlling pornography in England and Wales need to be strengthened to make it illegal to download staged images of rape, campaigners say.