Real Madrid take a big step towards the Champions League quarter-finals with a last-16 first-leg victory at Roma.

Austria will impose a daily quota on asylum claims and limit the flux of migrants travelling through the country.

A fast-growing tumbleweed called "hairy panic" is clogging up homes in a small Australian town.

David Cameron's bid to win backing for his EU reforms has reached "crunch time" as a crucial summit gets under way, a UK government official says.

NHS trusts in England are on course to be £2.3bn in the red by the end of the year, according to a leading health think tank.

More than 1,000 NHS patients in the past four years have suffered from medical mistakes so serious they should never happen, according to analysis by the Press Association.

Rail passengers in the south-east of England are the least satisfied with their trains, according to a survey by consumer group Which?

Police forces could be "sleepwalking" back to an old model of policing where they are "isolated from communities", HM Inspector of Constabulary warns.