Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs says she wants to see more diversity in Oscar nominations, responding to a row about this year's nominees.

The Tories should be more worried about Labour's Ed Miliband than UKIP's Nigel Farage during the election campaign, former party chairman Lord Patten tells the BBC.

Firefighters are still tackling a major blaze which broke out on Saturday afternoon at a fish factory in Peterhead.

Greek police arrest four people over alleged links to a jihadist terror plot in Belgium which has put that country on a heightened state of alert.

Brazil says it is "outraged" by Indonesia's decision to execute one its citizens - believed to be the first Brazilian to be executed abroad.

More than half of secondary school boys and two-thirds of girls never shower after PE, A study suggests.

A review into how the Department for Education dealt with concerns over extremism in Birmingham schools is 'farcical', a headteacher tells the BBC.

Mexican police arrest Felipe Rodriguez, accused of being involved in the murders of 43 students missing from Iguala since September.