The Labour Party's internal report on why it lost the general election is leaked to the BBC's Iain Watson.

Hundreds of extra armed officers are to be trained to help counter the threat of a Paris-style attack in London, the Metropolitan Police is to announce.

Opinion pollsters' failure to predict the outcome of May's general election may have been because Conservative voters are harder to track down, a report says.

Al Jazeera America will shut down its cable news channel despite spending heavily to break into the US market.

Wholesale gas and electricity prices in the UK hit a five-year low at the end of 2015, according to latest research by energy markets analysts.

Transgender people in the UK face "high levels of transphobia" on a daily basis and they have "a long way to go" to achieve equality in the UK, MPs say.

Remaining within the EU under the UK's current membership terms would be "disastrous", Conservative Commons leader Chris Grayling says.

A car-bomb attack on a police HQ in Turkey's majority-Kurdish province of Diyarbakir kills at least five people and wounds dozens, local media say.