Brussels is on high alert as a major police operation continues following a deadly raid linked to the Paris attacks.

US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Russia next week to discuss the Syrian conflict, after Moscow's decision to withdraw the bulk of its forces.

There are no plans to deploy UK troops to provide training and security for Libya's newly-appointed national unity government, ministers insist.

The government is defeated in the Lords, as peers vote in favour of a 28-day cap on holding people in immigration detention centres.

Schools in England will be urged to run a longer school day, Chancellor George Osborne is expected to say in his Budget speech on Wednesday.

Republican Donald Trump wins three more states but loses the key state of Ohio, while Democrat Hillary Clinton marches on with three more wins.

The trainer of retired sprinter Black Caviar is cleared of deliberately administering illegal levels of a drug to a horse.

Nearly half of women who stop smoking during pregnancy take it up again as soon as they give birth, research in the journal Addiction shows.