UN human rights chief Navi Pillay says during a visit to Pakistan that US drone strikes inside the country raise serious legal questions.

There is little evidence that Syria's government is complying with an international peace plan to end violence, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says.

A survey has found that the gap between men's and women's pensions is shrinking because male incomes are falling.

New laws are to be introduced in England, Wales and Northern Ireland by the home secretary to jail parents who force their children to marry.

Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist and vocalist Bob Welch is found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Nashville in the US.

A parasitic mite has helped spread a lethal virus that has wiped out millions of honeybee colonies worldwide, say scientists.

Further tickets for the Olympic Games, including ones for the opening and closing ceremonies, are to be put on sale.

A brain training technique which helps people control activity in a specific part of the brain could help treat depression, a study suggests.