US soldier Robert Bales avoids the death penalty for murdering 16 Afghan civilians last year, after a military judge accepts his guilty plea.

The UK is to restart the transfer of Afghan detainees captured by British forces to the Afghan justice system later this month, the Ministry of Defence says.

Laws governing whether organisations should be classified as charities are flawed and should be revised, a group of MPs say.

The outgoing boss of the NHS in England suggests he wants to "liberate" the NHS from political meddling in his final months in the job.

The US is collecting telephone records of tens of millions of Americans on a daily basis, according to an alleged secret court order published by the Guardian newspaper.

A failed plot to carry out a terror attack on an EDL rally could have sparked a "tit for-tat spiral of violence and terror", a court has heard.

A woman who was filmed shouting racist abuse at passengers on a London tram pleads guilty to the offence.

A 30-year-old man has been charged with terror offences after being arrested earlier on Wednesday in east London, Scotland Yard has said.