Nurse shortages in the UK will continue for years to come and could get worse, experts are predicting.

Wales' historic Euro 2016 run comes to an end at the semi-final stage as Cristiano Ronaldo guides Portugal to the final.

Two children aged two and three have died after the car they were in crashed into a loch, Police Scotland says.

The US imposes sanctions on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for the first time, accusing him of inflicting "intolerable cruelty" on his citizens.

The Education Select Committee rejects the government's preferred candidate for the new chief inspector of schools and children's services in England.

Academy trusts are no better than local authorities at raising school standards, says an analysis of primary and secondary schools in England.

About a third of English councils have spent additional money topping up a government fund aimed at cushioning the impact of welfare changes, it emerges.

A kilo of drugs previously known as "legal highs" and dozens of mobile phones are seized at a South Yorkshire prison in a single month.