The basic rights of some mental health patients in England are being "violated" because of a shortage of beds in psychiatric units, MPs say.

The first direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in three years are set to be begin in Jerusalem, after Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners overnight.

The insurer Legal & General aims to become a major landlord in the UK's housing market, in an effort to redress what it calls "intergenerational injustice".

Thieves and fraudsters should not be jailed, a legal expert says in a pamphlet released by the Howard League for Penal Reform.

A group of former Army officers will visit Downing Street later to demand the option of UK resettlement for Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces.

UN officials have begun inspecting an arms shipment found on a North Korean ship, Panama's security minister says.

Children born to obese and overweight mothers are more likely to die early of heart disease, a study suggests.

Twelve young ospreys taken from nests in Scotland have been released in northern Spain, in an attempt to restore a breeding population.