Labour dubs a government parenting class scheme a "flop" after just 4% of eligible parents in the pilot areas sign up to it.

Veteran US late-night TV host David Letterman is to retire in 2015, broadcaster CBS has announced.

The US Senate Intelligence Committee recommends the publication of part of its report into the "brutal" CIA interrogation of terror suspects.

The underwater search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 begins - with pinger locators on two ships in a section of the Indian Ocean.

Pollution over parts of the UK remain high but forecasters suggest it could be blown away by "clean Atlantic air" on Friday.

BBC Sport's Frank Keogh assesses the runners and riders in the 2014 Grand National, to be run at Aintree on Saturday

In his regular BBC Sport column Lewis Hamilton talks of his happiness with the new Mercedes ahead of the Bahrain GP

Two foreign journalists have been shot by a policeman in eastern Afghanistan - one killed, one wounded - a day before presidential elections, police say.