David Cameron says the government is looking again at the impact on some families of its proposed changes to child benefit for the better-off.

More students at UK universities are being awarded firsts and upper second class degrees, new figures show.

A link between eating processed meat, such as bacon or sausages, and pancreatic cancer has been suggested by researchers in Sweden.

A US military officer recommends a court martial for Bradley Manning, accused of leaking secret US government documents to Wikileaks.

The government has confirmed plans to make it easier for teachers in England to be sacked, but the move has been condemned as a "bully's charter".

An effort to find the "bubbles" that young, massive stars blow has succeeded in finding more than 10 times as many as were known about before.

The hidden evolutionary secrets of primates' faces

Police are to investigate claims that UK secret services helped the rendition of a man to Libya.