Teachers in England's state schools would need to be licensed every few years if Labour returned to power, the BBC's Nick Robinson is told.

A plan to require teachers to have licences and a "secret report" recommending the building of two new cities are among Saturday's headlines.

A member of the Alliance Party's youth wing has returned back to the UK after being deported from Israel.

Larry Speakes, former press secretary to President Ronald Reagan, dies at home in his native Mississippi.

Adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve heads to Kenya to uncover the stories behind Britain's favourite drink. In this clip he visits a tea plantation and has a go at picking tea leaves himself.

A new scheme is launched by the UK government to protect the Scotch whisky industry from fake or sub-standard products.

Members of the home building industry accuse the government of being in "turmoil" over the implementation of rules to prevent housing developments making floods worse.

Protesters clash with riot police in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, injuring several people, including former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko.