More than six million UK workers could find their take-home pay cut from April after the new flat-rate state pension comes into effect.

Brazil's tourism minister quits government as embattled President Dilma Rousseff risks losing the support of her coalition allies.

A woman is charged with the murder of a man who had not been seen by friends or family for several weeks.

The UK and other wealthy nations should sharply increase the number of Syrian refugees they take in, Oxfam has said.

Most of the passengers on board a hijacked Egyptian airliner that was forced to divert to Cyprus have been freed, the airline says.

A man is shot and injured by armed police in South Shields.

A jealous man beheaded the mother of his two children in an act of "pure hatred", a court hears.

India's Tata Steel is expected to put its loss-making UK business up for sale, according to union sources.