Yesterday 11:55 pm (6 hours ago)
Education watchdog Ofsted says poor children are now let down by schools in rural areas, leafy suburbs and deprived coastal towns - not the inner cities.
2:06 am (4 hours ago)
England's NHS regulator is to review a decision not to name those behind a possible "cover-up" after a series of baby deaths at a Cumbria hospital.
3:45 am (3 hours ago)
James Gandolfini, the US actor best known for his role as a therapy-seeking mob boss in The Sopranos, dies at the age of 51.
Yesterday 11:52 pm (6 hours ago)
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is set to reopen the debate about genetic modification by calling for the reform of crop licensing at EU level.
Yesterday 8:45 pm (10 hours ago)
George Osborne uses his Mansion House speech to the City to announce the government is preparing to sell its Lloyds Bank stake back to private investors.
5:02 am (an hour ago)
Brussels says passengers going through the Channel Tunnel are paying over the odds, because Eurotunnel is overcharging the train companies for using the track.
6:07 am (12 minutes ago)
Brazilian authorities promise to reverse public transport fare rises that sparked unrest, but nationwide protests continue unabated.
12:30 am (6 hours ago)
Too many mentally ill people are being held in police cells, say four watchdog bodies.
Yesterday 10:01 pm (8 hours ago)
Providers of the government's flagship Work Programme tell ministers the costs of helping sick and disabled jobseekers into employment cannot be met under the scheme.
Yesterday 9:24 pm (9 hours ago)
The US Secretary of State John Kerry calls the Afghan leader to defuse tension over the opening of a Taliban office, an Afghan official tells the BBC.
4:58 am (an hour ago)
A charity is advising people to cover their webcams when they are not in use because hackers could be using them to spy on you.
Yesterday 10:43 pm (8 hours ago)
Microsoft backtracks on controversial plans to impose strict restrictions on the playing and trading of games on its upcoming Xbox One console.
1:44 am (5 hours ago)
A school librarian has discovered that a poem widely attributed to William Blake, including in official reading lists, was not really written by him.
1:33 am (5 hours ago)
Legendary musical Miss Saigon returns to London's West End in 2014, its 25th anniversary year.
3:21 am (3 hours ago)
The Federal Reserve maintains its $85bn-a-month (£54bn) asset purchase programme, but says it could begin scaling back later this year and ending it completely in 2014.
12:00 am (6 hours ago)
Rogue traders are reprising old scams but with a digital twist to target people whose budgets are squeezed, says trading standards.
Yesterday 3:15 pm (15 hours ago)
Commons Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans says he "refutes all allegations" after he is arrested on suspicion of three counts of indecent assault.
Yesterday 10:21 pm (8 hours ago)
Sir Mervyn King says he is "honoured" to be made a peer - as he is praised for his 10 years in the top job at the Bank of England by the chancellor.
Yesterday, 12:10 am
A new consistent system of front-of-pack food labelling is to be introduced in the UK, the government says.
Yesterday 6:01 pm (12 hours ago)
A rodent that never gets cancer could hold the key to preventing or treating malignant tumours, say scientists.
Yesterday 12:36 pm (18 hours ago)
Careers advice is on "life support" in many schools in England with teenagers having little knowledge of the workplace, the director general of the CBI, John Cridland, claims.
Yesterday, 2:04 am
Many UK universities do not consider candidates' backgrounds when offering places, research suggests.
12:13 am (6 hours ago)
A study by Reuters suggests more people are becoming willing to buy online news, but warns that social media may be eroding brand recognition.
Yesterday 6:41 pm (12 hours ago)
A US publisher is pricing a sci-fi video game for iPhones and iPads at more than double the cost high-end titles are usually sold for on those devices.
2:43 am (4 hours ago)
A genetic similarity between snail fossils found in Ireland and the Eastern Pyrenees suggests humans migrated from southern Europe to Ireland 8,000 years ago.
1:23 am (5 hours ago)
The plights of the world's threatened birds show the value of investing in conservation, according to an international report.
Yesterday 1:08 pm (17 hours ago)
Dundee, Hull, Leicester and Swansea Bay make the shortlist to become the UK's second City of Culture in 2017.
Yesterday 4:30 pm (14 hours ago)
Slim Whitman, the American country singer known for his yodelling abilities has died at the age of 90.
Yesterday 1:35 pm (17 hours ago)
In much of the UK, many young people have no prospect of getting on the property ladder. How can they prepare for decades of renting?
Yesterday, 12:43 am
The Holocaust carries a special importance for Israel. Can it ensure that the next generation knows what happened, and does not forget?
3:12 am (3 hours ago)
England prop Alex Corbisiero is the surprise inclusion in the Lions team for the first Test against Australia on Saturday.
Yesterday 2:01 pm (16 hours ago)
The Queen-owned Estimate is among the favourites to land the Gold Cup on Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot on Thursday.
Yesterday 6:36 pm (12 hours ago)
Britain's Laura Robson, Heather Watson and Elena Baltacha all lose in the second round of the Aegon International.
Yesterday 7:05 pm (11 hours ago)
Captain Alastair Cook says it will be a childhood dream come true when England appear in the Champions Trophy final.
Yesterday 9:33 am (21 hours ago)
Football fixtures for the Premier League, Football League and Scottish leagues for the 2013-14 season are announced.
5:04 am (an hour ago)
The funeral of a teenager who was killed when a hen party's minibus crashed will take place later.
2:11 am (4 hours ago)
Civilian staff at five RAF stations across England are striking in a dispute over their pay.
12:14 am (6 hours ago)
Scotland's wealthiest households are now 273-times better off than the most deprived, according to a report by Oxfam Scotland.
Yesterday 9:26 pm (9 hours ago)
The first minister backs a break-up of RBS to split its risky investment bank from its mainstream business.
Yesterday 10:30 am (20 hours ago)
A factory in Larne, County Antrim, that makes medical devices is creating 416 new jobs
Yesterday 8:15 pm (10 hours ago)
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is facing a legal challenge over plans to hire 900 temporary staff in a contract which could be worth up to £180m.
Yesterday 7:21 pm (11 hours ago)
A snack bar manufacturer is to move its main production plant from north to south Wales, with about 120 Gwynedd staff offered a transfer to Newport.
Yesterday 8:21 pm (10 hours ago)
The creator of Groggs, the hand-carved caricature statues of sporting heroes and other celebrities, dies at the age of 79.
1:10 am (5 hours ago)
UN head Ban Ki-moon expresses outrage over a "despicable" attack by Islamists on a UN office in Somalia which killed at least 15 people.
Yesterday 8:46 pm (10 hours ago)
Shops belonging to Asians are targeted in a violent protest in DR Congo's capital over the arrest of Congolese students in India over the weekend.
6:11 am (8 minutes ago)
Singapore and Indonesia schedule an emergency meeting after haze in Singapore soars to hazardous levels, breaking all previous records.
5:23 am (56 minutes ago)
China's second female astronaut, Wang Yaping, delivers the country's first-ever video lecture from the Tiangong-1 space laboratory.
Yesterday 9:26 pm (9 hours ago)
Speaking at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, President Barack Obama calls for reductions to be made in US and Russian nuclear stockpiles.
Yesterday 3:20 pm (15 hours ago)
The IMF says Spain has made strong progress on its economy, but the outlook remains "difficult" and more action is needed to boost job creation.
Yesterday 3:52 pm (14 hours ago)
A US fugitive on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list for the alleged sexual exploitation of children is arrested at a resort in Mexico.
Yesterday 10:46 pm (8 hours ago)
A Neymar-inspired Brazil defeat Mexico to secure the hosts' place in the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup.
Yesterday 6:53 pm (11 hours ago)
Egypt's tourism minister quits and protests erupt as a man with links to Islamists behind the deadly 1997 attack in Luxor is named as city governor.
Yesterday 12:23 pm (18 hours ago)
A suicide bomber on a motorbike kills two people in Yemen's northern town of Saada, which is under the control of Houthi Shia rebels.
Yesterday 9:55 pm (8 hours ago)
The FBI has used drones for surveillance in limited cases over US soil and is developing a drone use policy, the FBI director tells the US Senate.
Yesterday 10:38 pm (8 hours ago)
World tennis number one Serena Williams apologises after reportedly appearing to criticise the victim in a high-profile US rape case.
Tuesday, 2:38 pm
Mass protests in Brazil
Tuesday, 12:59 pm
Twenty-four hours of news photos: 18 June
Tuesday, 7:24 am
Forest fires in Indonesia create haze
Tuesday, 9:00 am
Marking World Refugee Day
Tuesday, 12:49 am
Thwarting high-profile militant attacks
Monday, 4:05 pm
Twenty-four hours of news photos: 17 June
Monday, 3:30 am
Healers in Tanzania’s southern highlands
Monday, 3:34 am
Images from the last days of India's telegram service
Yesterday 12:32 pm (18 hours ago)
Criminal penalties for irresponsible bankers will be added to the Banking Bill, MPs are told.
2:36 am (4 hours ago)
Too many mentally ill people are being held in police cells, say four watchdog bodies.
4:21 am (an hour ago)
Author Mitchell Zuckoff tells the BBC about the remarkable series of rescue attempts after US planes crashed on a glacier in Greenland during WWII - and how some of the crew survived an Arctic winter on the ice.
5:21 am (58 minutes ago)
China has held its first classroom lecture from its orbiting space station as part of efforts to appeal to young people.
1:22 am (5 hours ago)
A new movement is encouraging Brazilians in Sao Paulo to plant gardens up the walls of buildings as a solution to the city's lack of affordable green space.
Yesterday 9:43 pm (9 hours ago)
China's 'new middle class' has not just migrated to the country's cities, but their spending is boosting the world's second largest economy.
Yesterday 10:56 pm (7 hours ago)
Brazilian police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse some protesters in the city of Fortaleza, as unrest continues across the country.
1:24 am (5 hours ago)
Austrian director Michael Haneke is well known for his reluctance to interpret his own work but now a documentary provides a close study of his work.
Yesterday 4:23 pm (14 hours ago)
More details have been released about plans for the birth of the royal baby.
12:13 am (6 hours ago)
Should action be taken against Tor and other ID-hiding tech?
1:26 am (5 hours ago)
The Greeks who want to bring back Zeus
1:29 am (5 hours ago)
Syria conflict threatens delicate peace in next-door Lebanon
12:04 am (6 hours ago)
Biro bans and other tales of the low-cost revolution
12:14 am (6 hours ago)
Giving nature a home in your back garden
12:25 am (6 hours ago)
Will China's new middle class spend its way to dominance?
12:09 am (6 hours ago)
Has the fighter pilot had his day?
5:46 am (33 minutes ago)
Papers ponder health watchdog 'cover-up'
3:08 am (3 hours ago)
The BBC's Gary Duffy on the protests gripping Brazil