The Scottish Sun newspaper has announced its backing for the SNP ahead of the General Election vote on 7 May.

North and South America become the first regions to completely eradicate rubella, or German measles, after no cases in five years

Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander says the Tories proposed to "slash" child benefit while the two parties were in government together.

Men are narrowing the gap on women when it comes to life expectancy in England and Wales, research in the Lancet indicates.

The number of older carers in England is rising, with signs the responsibility of looking after loved ones is damaging their health, research suggests.

After a decade in space and four years in orbit, Nasa's Messenger spacecraft will end its mission on Thursday by crashing into the surface of Mercury.

Efforts are under way to save "irreplaceable" antiques at an 18th Century stately home after parts of it are gutted in a huge blaze.

A plane carrying 120 Britons caught up in the Nepal earthquake arrives back in the UK, as the Foreign Office investigates reports a second Briton has died.