Scientists have developed a technique to grow human embryos in the lab past the point they normally implant in the womb.

Party leaders will make a final appeal for votes ahead of Thursday's devolved elections in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales and English local polls.

Leaving the EU would involve years of "complex and daunting" negotiations, peers warn, but Leave campaigners say it should only take two years.

A US Navy Seal advising Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq is killed in an attack by Islamic State militants, US officials say.

Some 75 million school-age children in crisis areas around the world are in desperate need of educational support, according to a new report by Unicef.

The Advertising Standards Authority rules that broadband ads need to be clearer, following evidence the public do not understand current ones.

The government is coming under increasing pressure to accept 3,000 child refugees from the Syrian war who have made it into Europe unaccompanied.

A jewellery shop is raided at a north London shopping centre, with sledge hammers and pick-axes recovered afterwards.