A £1bn British army contract to replace its Apache attack helicopters is being held up due to lobbying by the firm Augusta Westland, say Whitehall insiders.

Scotland cannot afford the risk of the Conservatives emerging as the largest party in the May UK election, Labour leader Ed Miliband will say.

Five people - three of them Europeans - are killed in an attack on a nightclub in Mali's capital city of Bamako.

Plans to install energy saving smart meters in every UK home and business by 2020 risk veering off track, an influential group of MPs warns.

A Conservative-Labour coalition may be needed after the election to prevent the "nightmare" of the SNP holding the balance of power, a former Tory party chairman says.

The authorities in China remove from websites a popular documentary which highlights the country's severe pollution problem.

Two men have been detained over the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the head of the security agency announces.

IS militants are reportedly destroying the ruins of ancient Hatra in northern Iraq, days after a similar attack on the Assyrian site of Nimrud.