British ethnic minority doctors are four times more likely than white candidates to fail their clinical GP exam, an investigation commissioned by the General Medical Council finds.

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One person has been taken to hospital after a fire at the Campsfield House immigration removal centre in Kidlington, near Oxford, the Home Office says.

George Osborne expects to make a decision about how to break up the state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in "the next two or three weeks", he tells the Daily Telegraph.

Jorge Lorenzo sets a lap record to beat Marc Marquez to and claim pole position for Sunday's Australian Grand Prix.

Australia's military is investigating whether a training exercise using explosives may have started one of the huge bush fires burning in New South Wales.

At least 16 Syrian soldiers have been killed in a suicide bombing and fighting that followed in a Damascus suburb, activists say.

Manchester United midfielder Adnan Januzaj commits his future to the club by signing a new five-year deal.