The SNP would block a minority Conservative government by voting down its Queen's Speech if it holds the post-election balance of power, its former leader Alex Salmond says.

US President Obama says prospects for a Mid-East two-state solution are "dim", but says his relations with the Israeli leader are not a problem.

A Detroit mother is arrested after officials find two of her children dead inside her freezer.

The UK fracking industry needs a new regulator to give the public more confidence in the fledgling sector, an industry-backed body has concluded.

Britain's biggest companies have doubled the number of female directors, but some smaller firms still have all-male boards.

The UK government has not shown why it needs to spend £50bn building the HS2 rail link between London and the North, says a House of Lords committee.

Adult education and training in England "will not exist by 2020" if the government continues its "swathe of cuts", the Association of Colleges has warned.

Air pollution is linked to an increased risk of stroke, a large global study in the British Medical Journal suggests.