Nearly 70% of people who go through the government's main welfare-to-work scheme fail to find sustained employment, according to a committee of MPs.

Business lobby group the CBI accepts there are disadvantages to being in the European Union but that there would be worse ones if Britain left the EU.

Eurotunnel services are disrupted for the third time in as many days after intruders get into the French terminal.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has held talks with Russia's President Putin on an unannounced visit to Moscow, his first foreign trip since civil war started in 2011.

Two boats carrying 140 migrants, including children, have landed at the RAF base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, the Ministry of Defence says.

Starbucks and Fiat Chrysler have been told they must pay back between €20m (£15m) and €30m in taxes after European tax deals were ruled illegal.

The IRA's most senior double agent is to be investigated about the murder of at least 24 people.

Labour MP and former minister Michael Meacher has died after a short illness.