UKIP leader Nigel Farage "needs to take a break now", the party's only MP Douglas Carswell says.

Chancellor George Osborne says he will deliver a new Budget on 8 July which will "entrench stability and security".

Prospective leaders of the Labour Party will face questions from the public later, in the wake of news that Chuka Umunna has bowed out of the leadership contest.

David Cameron urges fundraising regulators to look at how they could have helped poppy seller Olive Cooke, who was found dead last week.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is in China to urge Beijing to halt what is seen as its increasingly assertive actions in the South China Sea.

The ordination of Church of Scotland ministers in same-sex relationships could be adopted this week as Kirk law.

The driver of the Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia has spoken to investigators but cannot remember what happened.

Three RAF Chinook helicopters sent to Nepal to help the aid effort in the country to return to the UK without having been used, the government says.