The HS2 rail link needs a "realistic timetable", say MPs who believe the current schedule is "overly ambitious".

Britain's 2011 military intervention in Libya was based on "erroneous assumptions", according to MPs who blame ex-PM David Cameron for the lack of a coherent strategy.

Wikileaks leaker Chelsea Manning says she has ended a hunger strike because the army has agreed to provide her with a gender surgery.

A prison watchdog criticises prison staff who watched but failed to intervene as a mentally ill prisoner blinded himself.

The number of people without jobs and looking for work fell by 39,000 to 1.63 million between May and July, official figures show.

Power is restored to about 20,000 properties left in darkness after torrential storms struck the north west of England.

A doctor quits after feeling obliged to advise a couple to bring their baby's remains home in a cooler bag following an abortion in England.

A 15-year-old Saudi girl living in Germany proposes creating a headscarf emoji.