Pupils up to the age of seven in England will be entitled to a free hot school lunch from this week, as schools re-open for the new term.

Gordon Brown says an independent Scotland would become "an international outcast" if it refused to accept a share of UK debt.

Corals stir up the water, creating vortices that draw in nutrients and drive away waste, research reveals.

A British activist who campaigns for better labour conditions is set to go on trial in Thailand charged with criminal defamation.

Major of London Boris Johnson says plans for an airport in the Thames Estuary, dubbed "Boris Island", are not dead despite a commission looking into the UK's airport needs rejecting the idea.

South Yorkshire Police commissions an independent investigation into its handling of the Rotherham child abuse scandal, while Labour suspends four members in the town.

Fighters from a militant Islamic group in Afghanistan, allied to the Taliban, tell the BBC they are considering joining forces with Islamic State.

The government is considering conducting an inspection of Rotherham Council in the wake of the child abuse scandal in the town, Home Secretary Theresa May says.