German justice minister Haiko Maas says Germany will not recognise polygamous or underage marriages, as concern over such practices rise.

The US is reviewing its ban on transgender people serving in its armed forces - Jane, who is an airman, has hidden her gender identity from the military for 25 years.

The late broadcaster and MP Sir Clement Freud is accused of abusing two girls between the late 1940s and 1970s.

Sir Philip Green is due to appear before MPs about the sale and collapse of retailer BHS, which he sold last year for £1.

The UK is seeing a small but "extremely worrying" rise in the number of children developing a type of diabetes that is linked to obesity and unhealthy lifestyles, experts warn.

Social media and smartphones are becoming the main news source for young people, according to a major report into the future of news.

Plans to offer pre-schoolers in England 30 free hours of childcare a week may be in jeopardy if not enough childminders and nurseries offer places, MPs warn.

Most children are exposed to online pornography by their early teenage years, leaving them at risk of becoming "desensitised", a study warns.