The creators of Big Bird call on the Obama campaign to withdraw a new advertisement that uses the character to attack rival Mitt Romney.

Campaigners and ministers are hoping a government-hosted summit on dementia research will help boost industry's waning interest in the condition.

Radical cleric Abu Qatada is launching what could be his last appeal against deportation to Jordan.

Northern Ireland Assembly members vote in favour of the biggest shake-up of social security benefits for decades.

Five of the UK's most dangerous criminals are to appeal against their life sentences for murder and rape, a move which is being seen as a test of the whole-of-life term.

Women who take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may cut their risk of heart problems, suggests a study in the journal BMJ, but experts are still cautious about long-term safety risks.

Ryanair says it will not form part of any consortium to buy Stansted after saying the airport's owner BAA had excluded the budget airline from the sale process.

Householders who react with force when confronted by burglars will escape prosecution, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling tells Tory activists.