The UK government is to provide £12m to help France tackle the problem of illegal immigrants trying to enter Britain from Calais.

Wales should be rewarded for not putting the UK "through the mincer" of a referendum on independence, former first minister Rhodri Morgan says, after Scotland voted to stay in the UK.

David Cameron and Ed Miliband are at odds over plans for English MPs to be given power over England-only issues.

US Secretary of State John Kerry says Iran has a role to play in the fight against Islamic State despite not being part of the US-led coalition.

The European Court for Human Rights will hear Italian ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi's appeal against a fraud conviction, his lawyer says.

A mother is charged with murdering her newborn baby girl whose body was found at a house in Knowle, Bristol.

An Australian hunter says he fought off a crocodile by poking the reptile in the eye, admitting he was tipsy during the attack.

Police make three arrests after separating groups of rival Unionist and independence supporters in George Square in the centre of Glasgow.