A series of police blunders contributed to the death of a woman who was murdered by her estranged husband after years of abuse, a report finds.

Checks and balances on how academy chains in England spend large amounts of public money are "too weak", according to research.

The US space agency Nasa has chosen Boeing and SpaceX to build a new generation of spaceships to carry astronauts to the International Space Station.

World War Two records reveal the existence of a glamorous female secret agent whose job was to see if other agents could keep their mouths shut.

Bosses of UK listed companies could see their pay packages overhauled under new rules from the Financial Reporting Council (FRC).

Unemployment fell by 146,000 to 2.02 million in the three months to the end of July, while the number claiming Jobseeker's Allowance has dipped below one million.

Almost 50 people have been killed by two days of government air strikes in an opposition-held town in central Syria, activists say.

Ukraine will screen one million civil servants for loyalty to the new government and root out corrupt practices, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk says.