France and the UK have called on the UN to begin air drops of humanitarian aid to besieged areas in Syria.

Schools in England are struggling to support the 1.1 million pupils with special educational needs or disabilities in mainstream classrooms, a report says.

MPs warn that continued soil degradation risks putting some of the UK’s most productive agricultural land beyond profitable use within a generation.

Powers that allow UK security services to collect large volumes of personal data are not "inherently incompatible" with privacy laws, say MPs and peers.

Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran tops a list of the most-played pop acts in the UK in 2015.

Taxi app service Uber attracts a $3.5bn (£2.43bn) investment from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund to help it expand in the Middle East.

Two people die in a motorway crash involving at least four vehicles in Gloucestershire.

A British father and his wife who were given the wrong baby by a hospital in El Salvador last year have been allowed to travel home to the US with their child.