UK and US citizens should be confident their intelligence agencies operate within the law, the foreign secretary says after talks in Washington with his American counterpart John Kerry.

A general strike begins in Greece in protest at the government's move to shut state broadcaster ERT with the loss of nearly 2,700 jobs.

Thousands of bright children are being let down by England's non-selective secondary schools, inspectors warn.

HM Revenue and Customs should "fully investigate" Google after information from whistleblowers "undermined" the firm's defence of its tax arrangements, MPs say.

Doctors in England and Wales see a four-fold increase in the number of children and teenagers admitted to hospital for conditions linked to obesity.

Police in Indonesia say contact has been made with kidnapped Briton Malcolm Primrose.

Patients at a Manchester hospital are to become the first in the country to be able to pick their preferred consultant based on their previous results.

A British woman is killed in a car crash in Siberia while taking part in the Beijing to Paris Rally for vintage cars, officials say.