More than 7,500 have died in Syria since a crackdown began last March, a senior UN official says, as three foreign journalists remain missing.

There has been a 6% rise in the number of EU students applying to Scottish universities - where they will pay no fees.

The bodies of a woman and a young child are found by police in a house in the Parkhead area of Sighthill in Edinburgh.

The World Boxing Council gives Dereck Chisora an indefinite suspension for his behaviour surrounding his recent fight with Vitali Klitschko.

A third student dies the day after a high school shooting in the US state of Ohio wounded five students, hospital officials say.

Could this be a new world record for human mattress domino toppling?

Being compassionate should be as important as being clever when it comes to the recruitment of staff to care for the elderly, experts say.

A police horse lent to former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks by Scotland Yard was returned in a "poor condition", the Met says.