The number of people in the UK who will get cancer during their lifetime will increase to nearly half the population by 2020, a report suggests.

Former armed forces personnel without degrees will have the chance to be fast-tracked into teaching in England under a new government programme.

Glasgow City Council is fined £150,000 for the loss of two unencrypted laptops, one of which contained personal details of more than 20,000 people.

Prime Minister David Cameron is to tell a gathering of Conservative Party faithful that Scotland should face the future as part of a United Kingdom.

Laws controlling pornography in England and Wales need to be strengthened to make it illegal to download staged images of rape, campaigners say.

A comet's extremely close encounter with the Sun gives scientists a look at a region that has never been visited by spacecraft.

US intelligence chief James Clapper admits agents do collect communications from internet firms, but the policy only targets "non-US persons".

Speed cameras cut the number of serious injuries in road accidents in the areas where they are placed by an average of more than a quarter, a study suggests.