Police Scotland have issued a drugs warning after a 16-year-old girl died after falling ill at a party.

The Irish justice minister says she is "concerned" about a woman and baby at the centre of a controversy over the state's new abortion legislation.

A father-of-four who was attacked at his home in south-west London has said it felt like he was in a gangster film.

Islamic State militants in Iraq could grow strong enough to target people "on the streets of Britain" unless action is taken, warns David Cameron.

Alcohol taxes should be increased to fund rehabilitation services, a leading centre-right think tank urges.

Police are to question a group of people found inside a shipping container at a busy port, as they continue to investigate the death of one man.

Islamic State militants are accused of massacring hundreds of people in areas under their control in northern Iraq and eastern Syria.

Two UN peacekeepers are killed and seven injured in a suicide attack on a UN patrol base in northern Mali.