Former director general of MI5 Baroness Manningham-Buller has suggested the British government should talk to al-Qaeda.

Iran expels a Bahraini diplomat in a retaliatory move, amid an ongoing dispute linked to anti-government protests in Bahrain.

The government appears to be gaining control of the public finances and could benefit from a £8bn windfall this year, a report suggests.

Four "very different" community projects across Scotland share more than £1.7m in grants from the Big Lottery Fund.

Scotland's labour market showed further improvement in February, according to a monthly survey

A new survey on religious belief appears to show that many people who say they are members of a religion, do not regard themselves as "religious".

The largest ever collection of Roman coins found in Britain in one pot is to stay in the county where it was unearthed.

The UN nuclear agency says Japan is making progress in its effort to tackle the post-earthquake nuclear emergency, but the situation remains "very serious".