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400,000 children in England missed a month of school in the last academic year, government figures show.

UK economic growth in the last three months of 2011 is revised down to a contraction of 0.3%, partly due to the transport sector.

The legal high methoxetamine, or mexxy, is the first drug to be banned temporarily under new powers, the Home Office says.

An oil painting of an old man that has been newly authenticated as a work by Rembrandt is to go on public display at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire this week.

The families of RAF Bomber Command servicemen say the ticketing process for the unveiling of a memorial has been "confusing and unclear".

A Supreme Court ruling could allow thousands of insurance claims by families of people who died after exposure to asbestos.

Gunmen have seized the Saudi deputy consul in the southern Yemeni city of Aden outside his home, police say.

A £5,000 reward is offered to help catch those responsible for a "sickening" attack on a grandmother in North Lanarkshire.

The LA Dodgers baseball club is to be sold to a consortium that includes the former basketball star Magic Johnson.

The government is facing criticism from petrol retailers and Labour for its handling of the threat of a strike by fuel tanker drivers.

For more than 60 years, the Central Office of Information has warned us, informed us and told us what to do, but now it is closing.

Rape survivors speak out about their experiences

Police name a man and his elderly mother from Cardiff, who died after falling from cliffs at Beach Head in Sussex.

Israel's main opposition party, Kadima, has elected the former defence minister and army chief, Shaul Mofaz, as its new leader.

A woman is arrested in connection with the murder of Simon Tang in Carrickfergus 16 years ago.

New legislation to allow television cameras into courts in England and Wales are to be announced in the Queen's Speech in May, according to reports.

A major effort is under way using an innovative British-built astronomical camera to observe the Universe when it produced stars at a prodigious rate.

Drought conditions spread to parts of East and South Yorkshire, after the Environment Agency earlier declared affected areas of the South East and East Anglia.

Hundreds of Afghan women are in jail for "moral crimes", including running away and extra-marital sex, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says.

Astronomers detect vast amounts of gas and dust, including a strong carbon signal, in the galaxy that contains the most distant supermassive black hole known to science.