Scientists have developed a technique to grow human embryos in the lab past the point they normally implant in the womb.

The government must stop putting off the "difficult" decision to expand Heathrow Airport rather than Gatwick, a Commons committee says.

Party leaders will make a final appeal for votes ahead of Thursday's devolved elections in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales and English local polls.

Ted Cruz announces he is ending campaign for US Republican presidential nomination, after losing heavily to Donald Trump in Indiana primary.

The garden at the former home of a jailed paedophile couple, who knew serial killers Fred and Rose West, is being dug up by police based on a tip-off.

Leaving the EU would involve years of "complex and daunting" negotiations, peers warn, but Leave campaigners say it should only take two years.

A US Navy Seal advising Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq is killed in an attack by Islamic State militants, US officials say.

Some 75 million school-age children in crisis areas around the world are in desperate need of educational support, according to a new report by Unicef.