Former MP Ann Widdecombe renews her complaint that she was "deliberately" snubbed by Prime Minister David Cameron for a peerage.

Four stringed instruments made from a tree at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's childhood Edinburgh home are to be played in public for the first time.

The government is to spend an extra £600m on building 100 new free schools in England over the the next three years.

Pakistani officials accuse Nato helicopters of firing on a military checkpoint near Pakistan's Afghan border, killing at least 14 soldiers.

Results from New Zealand's general election suggest the ruling National Party will win, but may fall short of an overall majority.

A 79-year-old woman found unconscious in a Greater Manchester alleyway after an apparent mugging has died, police say.

It is "highly likely" Nato aircraft were behind an attack on a Pakistani border checkpoint that killed at least 24 soldiers, a Nato spokesman tells the BBC.

Nasa launches its most ambitious mission to Mars yet - a 900kg robot to find out whether the Red Planet is, or ever has been, suitable for life.