A woman taken to court for allegedly making a false rape claim killed herself three days before her trial over fears she would not be believed, her inquest hears.

George Osborne is to set out his tax and spending plans later, in his last Budget before May's general election.

Ukraine's MPs approve changes to the "special status" law for rebel-held areas in eastern Ukraine, but the separatists say this threatens a truce.

A former lawyer of the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden is shot dead in the north-western city of Peshawar.

The Syrian military says it has shot down a US drone near the city of Latakia, a northern stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad.

Almost 500 children across the West Midlands were victims of or at risk of sexual exploitation in the first half of last year, figures reveal.

The US Secret Service says it is conducting further tests on an envelope posted to the White House which may contain cyanide.

Morbidly obese people in England should be given a free flu jab on the NHS each year, say government advisers.