A body is found following an air and ground search for a Royal Marine who went missing in the Cairngorms National Park.

Nicola Sturgeon will formally take over the leadership of the SNP from Alex Salmond as the party's annual conference gets under way in Perth.

US ratings agency Standard and Poors gives social media giant Twitter's debt "junk" status, which is three notches below investment grade.

Three lanes of the M25 in Surrey are closed after a section where overnight roadworks were carried out collapses during heavy rain.

Equatorial Guinea are named as the hosts for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, replacing Morocco.

Police are investigating "possible homicide" linked to what a key witness describes as a paedophile ring involving powerful people in the 1970s and 1980s.

Former BBC DJ Chris Denning has again been convicted of sexual offences against boys, with his latest admitted crimes occurring over a 20-year period.

Police are investigating after a Twitter user wrote that he hoped disgraced footballer Ched Evans raped Jessica Ennis-Hill.