Alex Salmond says he has not made up his mind whether or not to stand for a Westminster seat at the next general election.

The Metropolitan Police is to pay more than £400,000 to a woman whose child was fathered by a man she did not know was an undercover police officer.

Mali says a two-year-old girl - believed to have recently visited Guinea - becomes the country's first person to be infected by the deadly virus.

Thirty years ago the BBC broadcast the first television reports of a devastating famine in Ethiopia. Tesfatsion Dalellew saw the reports and coordinated World Vision's response.

A collection of art by a master forger whose work fooled dealers and galleries around the world sells at auction for more than £50,000.

Council leaders call for a more "common-sense approach" to term-time holidays.

A wartime MI5 agent who secretly penetrated the ranks of the UK's Nazi sympathisers has been identified as an unassuming suburban bank clerk, new files show.

Computer workstations, electronic signature pads and free wi-fi are rolling out across UK job centres.