People reaching the age of 65 will no longer be forced to retire from October next year, under plans announced by the government.

Fugitive Polly Peck tycoon Asil Nadir, who fled to northern Cyprus in 1993, begins a legal bid to be granted bail ahead of a UK theft trial.

Children's heart surgery should remain suspended at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital where four babies died, a report says.

David Cameron says it is important to "speak frankly" after criticism of his comments about Pakistan's record on tackling terrorism.

A Sussex vicar is found guilty of carrying out hundreds of sham marriages over four years to bypass immigration law.

Up to 60,000 people working in the public sector in Scotland could lose their jobs, according to an independent review commissioned by ministers.

The Attorney General is to review the sentences given to two teenage members of a "happy slapping" gang who fatally beat a man.

A couple who murdered a three-year-old boy in their care, inflicting more than 70 injuries on him, are jailed for life.

Convicted serial killer Peter Tobin is questioned by police in Edinburgh in connection with serious sexual crimes.

The UK Independence Party wins its court battle against having to pay back all of a £367,697 "impermissible donation".

A "ground-breaking" Court of Appeal judgement removes the protection previously given to thousands of people in divorce proceedings.

A man who threw an egg at Conservative peer Baroness Warsi when she was on a visit to Bedfordshire is jailed for six weeks.