Changes to tax, benefits and pensions coming into force spark a fresh battle between Labour and the Conservatives over whether families will be better or worse off.

Two Spanish cavers die and one survives in a complicated rescue effort in Morocco's Atlas mountains.

A ban on displaying tobacco products at the point of sale in small shops has come into force, joining a similar ban in supermarkets already in place.

The NUT says teachers are fearful of discussing controversial issues, such as Islamist extremism, in the classroom.

Teachers warn of the risks of pupils staying up late at night and then relying on a boost from energy drinks before school the next morning.

A boom in cheap package holidays in the 1960s is partly behind the "worrying rise" in skin cancers in pensioners, Cancer Research UK suggests.

Police hunting the killer of an artist in a Sussex village are to knock on doors to urge more men to have their DNA screened.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says he will return tax revenues unfrozen by Israel because money has been deducted.