The UK is to begin preliminary talks with Australia about the outline of a future free trade deal between the two countries.

The chief executive who resigned as the head of a troubled mental health trust had a new job created for her worth £240,000 a year, the BBC learns.

The number of children seeking asylum in the care of English councils rose by 62% in a year, figures compiled by BBC News show.

Killings in Chicago have hit a 20-year high as the grim toll for homicides passes 500. The BBC's Ian Pannell and Darren Conway explore a world where gangs and guns rule. (WARNING: CONTAINS VERY STRONG LANGUAGE)

Retailer Sports Direct faces a shareholder revolt at its annual meeting with investors dissatisfied despite the firm's pledge to improve working conditions for its staff.

Critics of Ireland's tax regime are drawing outdated and unfair caricatures, says the Republic's Finance Minister.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a five-day-old baby at a supermarket in south Manchester.

Construction of a UK-funded wall near the so-called Jungle migrant camp in Calais will begin "very soon", a minister says.