The Student Loans Company has not improved its performance enough after administrative problems left thousands of students without funds in 2009, MPs say.

Secondary school pupils in the UK are falling behind international competitors, according to a major survey.

The husband of a woman killed on her honeymoon in South Africa plotted his wife's death, one of the men charged with her killing has told prosecutors.

The US and Nato have drawn up plans to defend Nato's Baltic members against Russia, US cables disclosed by Wikileaks show.

A small daily dose of aspirin substantially reduces death rates from a range of common cancers, a study suggests.

England thrash Australia by an innings and 71 runs to win the second Test in Adelaide and take a 1-0 lead in the Ashes.

Strip-searches are routinely carried out at Wetherby Young Offenders' Institution, prison inspectors say.

The future supply of traditional English mistletoe is under threat, conservationists warn.