The BBC confirms it is to broadcast a live referendum debate between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling on 25 August.

President Obama joins activists in calling for calm in St Louis after two nights of unrest following the fatal shooting by police of a black teenager.

The US has sent 130 more military advisors to the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says.

Head teachers say they will publish their own independent exam school league tables, bypassing any political involvement

The IPPR think tank says a full-blown economic recovery will not help fix the UK's youth unemployment problem, which it says is structural.

American actress Lauren Bacall, one of Hollywood's biggest post-war stars, has died.

The chief secretary to the Treasury insists he will continue to oppose a currency union even if Scotland votes for independence.

There are four times as many violent assaults at a privately-run prison in South Yorkshire than at similar jails, inspectors find.