A new poll suggests almost two thirds of teenagers have been asked for sexual images or videos of themselves, BBC Newsnight learns.

The UK power system is likely to be stretched "close to its limits" in the coming a years, a new report warns.

A report that advised against disciplining police over a meeting with "Plebgate" MP Andrew Mitchell had initially said there was a case to answer, it emerges.

The US Senate passes a bill to reopen the government and raise the federal debt limit, with hours to spare before the nation risks default.

New guidance on the prosecution of cases involving child sexual abuse, described as the biggest shift in attitude "for a generation", is being published.

Labour will pledge to introduce a levy on the profits of payday lenders to help support credit unions and other low-cost borrowing alternatives.

For millions of families in the UK, work no longer pays enough to provide a route out of poverty, the government's social mobility tsar is to warn.

Masters champion Adam Scott fires a course-record 64 to beat Justin Rose by two shots at the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda.