Communities should know where a child rapist is living, says a children's charity after a judge ruled it was unlawful to keep him in prison.

Britain called on the help of aircraft from Nato allies after a reported sighting of a submarine periscope off the west coast of Scotland last month.

Russia's richest man Alisher Usmanov reveals that he bought US scientist James Watson's Nobel Prize gold medal in order to return it to him.

More than 140 families voice fresh concerns about how the NHS ombudsman in England handles patients' complaints, week after a report raised the alarm.

A third of NHS contracts in England have been awarded to private sector firms since the Health and Social Care Act came into force, a probe finds.

Chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw will say that secondary schools are not making enough progress, in the education watchdog's annual report.

US Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on a $1.1tn (£701.6bn) spending bill ahead of a looming Thursday evening deadline.

Severe gales and flooding are expected to cause disruption as a so called "weather bomb" batters Scotland.