More than 5,500 alleged sex crimes in UK schools were reported to the police in the last three years, with a fifth carried out by other children.

Australia all-rounder Shane Watson retires from Test cricket with immediate effect at the age of 34.

Trains return to the Scottish Borders with the opening of the longest new domestic railway built in Britain for over a century.

A man is arrested after a woman in her 50s and a man in his 80s are stabbed to death at a care home in north-east London.

Leading charities say they will commit to a "strengthened" fundraising code to stop vulnerable donors being exploited.

The French secret service frogman who sank the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior ship 30 years ago in New Zealand apologises for his actions.

Lewis Hamilton cruises to a dominant Italian Grand Prix victory but faces an investigation over his tyre pressure.

A couple who were shocked by conditions in the migrant camp at Calais say they were overwhelmed by donations from people in the UK.