UKIP leader Nigel Farage "needs to take a break now", the party's only MP Douglas Carswell says.

Chancellor George Osborne says he will deliver a new Budget on 8 July which will "entrench stability and security".

US Secretary of State John Kerry is in China to urge Beijing to halt what is seen as its increasingly assertive actions in the South China Sea.

The driver of the Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia has spoken to investigators but cannot remember what happened.

Three RAF Chinook helicopters sent to Nepal to help the aid effort in the country to return to the UK without having been used, the government says.

The Co-operative Group is to vote on whether to continue financially supporting the Co-operative Party, which has strong ties to Labour.

An Egyptian court sentences ousted president Mohammed Morsi to death over a mass prison break in 2011.

A Russian rocket carrying a Mexican satellite has malfunctioned and crashed in Siberia, Russia's space agency says.