The latest figures indicate big regional differences in the proportion of women smoking during pregnancy, with rates much higher in poorer areas.

At least 30 people die after two explosions at a mosque near the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, an emergency official says.

Relatives of some of the 270 people killed in the Lockerbie bombing welcome the naming of two new suspects.

Three people are charged with assisting an offender following the death of PC Dave Phillips.

Scotland's deputy first minister, John Swinney, is to give councils the power to cut business rates from the end of this month.

Production restarts at a Newport steel plant, two-and-a-half years after it was mothballed.

Police investigating the Hatton Garden jewellery raid recover what is believed to be some of the stolen property at a north London cemetery.

The European and Russian space agencies are to send the first spacecraft to land near the south pole of the Moon, to lay the groundwork for a possible permanent settlement.