Police search Berkshire property belonging to Sir Cliff Richard in relation to alleged historical sex offence.

Pupils receiving A-level results will have more university places to choose from than ever before.

Failing GP practices will face closure under plans being unveiled in England.

Moving Trident nuclear submarines out of an independent Scotland would be "very difficult but not impossible", according to a study.

Tensions between protesters and police in the US city of St Louis have entered a fourth night after the shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

The UN declares its highest level of emergency in Iraq as a humanitarian crisis follows the rapid advance by Islamic State militants.

The Latvia-based social network - notoriously linked to teenage suicides - has been taken over, with the founders leaving the firm.

US President Barack Obama says US forces have "broken a siege" in north Iraq, to help rescue tens of thousands of people trapped on a mountain.