The consumer group Which? calls for a crack-down on ticket resale sites, arguing that consumers face a "stitch-up".

Vulnerable children across the UK are likely to have lost out because of ministers' "special treatment" of failed charity Kids Company", says a group of MPs.

Claimants for some in-work benefits could be better off temporarily giving up their job as a result of the government's EU negotiations, Whitehall officials tell the BBC.

A reputed mobster is acquitted of planning a brazen 1978 airport heist that helped to inspire the Mafia film Goodfellas.

US forces have carried out an air strike in Syria targeting the British Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", the Pentagon says.

A new study finds that obesity rates among US adults are on the rise again after years of slow decline.

Bulgarian authorities are accused of brutality towards migrants in a new report sponsored by the British charity Oxfam.

Every school in the Western Isles and Shetland will be closed to pupils on Friday because of the expected arrival of Storm Abigail.