The UK Foreign Office urges Britons to leave Bahrain using commercial flights on Thursday, amid protests and violence in the Gulf state.

A man is questioned over a double shooting which left two men dead, one in a burning car, at a travellers' site in Suffolk.

The International Committee of the Red Cross pulls out of the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi fearing an imminent attack.

One of the three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of the spot-fixing affair applies for legal aid to fight the charges, BBC Sport understands.

Social care is facing a funding gap of more than £1bn by 2014 - a situation which would have consequences for the NHS, a leading think-tank says.

Murder-mystery Heavy Rain picks up three video game Baftas, but Mass Effect 2 takes the best game title at the industry's premier awards ceremony.

Students from other EU countries could be charged to study in Scotland, the education secretary reveals.

A man who made his 11-year-old stepson wear a straitjacket and restraints to bed is jailed for three-and-a-half years at Doncaster Crown Court.