MP Andrew Mitchell has invested in a film-financing company that tax collectors say was a tax avoidance scheme, BBC Newsnight learns.

The findings are to be released later of a judge's review into secret letters assuring republican terrorism suspects they were no longer wanted by police.

EU leaders fail to agree on who should fill two top EU jobs - foreign policy chief and European Council president.

Gilbert and George turn to a funny source of inspiration for their latest exhibition: nitrous oxide, or laughing gas.

Care Minister Norman Lamb says he has changed his mind and is now in favour of a law on assisted dying in certain circumstances.

After his wife's death, writer Francisco Goldman spent five years in mourning before embracing Mexico City life again.

Universities in the UK spent nearly £140m more on attracting poor students in the first year of fees, a report says.

The Conservatives have drawn up plans designed to limit the power of the European Court of Human Rights and to reassert the sovereignty of Parliament, the BBC learns.