The Foreign Office is urging British nationals to leave the Libyan city of Benghazi immediately due to a "specific threat to Westerners".

Is there an element of truth to the claim that building snowmen may help to prevent flooding?

The convicted IRA bomber, Dolours Price, dies at her home in County Dublin at the age of 62.

There has been a huge leap in the numbers of Syrian refugees arriving in Jordan, the UN says, putting a considerable strain on resources.

MPs back a backbench business motion calling for the voting age to be lowered to 16 in all elections and referendums.

MPs will get their first chance to vote on plans to allow same-sex marriages in England and Wales next month.

Chancellor George Osborne says UK spending cuts must continue until 2017, rebuffing the IMF's advice to slow austerity measures in favour of growth

Some 15,000 crocodiles reportedly escaped from a farm in South Africa's far north amid heavy rains and flooding.