The Sinn Fein junior minister Gerry Kelly says he wants the DUP to spell out their conditions for the devolution of policing and justice.

The government has taken its "eye off the ball" on hospital infections other than MRSA and C. diff, a group of MPs says.

Town halls are being warned they risk missing the rise of the far-right if they just focus on Islamist extremists.

Ministers push ahead with plans to end the right of murder suspects to cite sexual infidelity as a partial defence in court.

Government plans to allow sensitive deaths to be investigated by a closed inquiry are backed by MPs.

No 10 defends the way Gordon Brown writes to bereaved families after a dead soldier's mother said he misspelled her son's name.

Plans for fast-tracking a new generation of nuclear power stations are to be announced by the government.

Gordon Brown will pay tribute to "men and women who dared to dream" at an event marking 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell.

Home Secretary Alan Johnson is accused by the Liberal Democrats of misleading MPs over the sacking of drugs adviser Professor David Nutt.

The public are not convinced by the Afghan war, the head of the UK's armed forces says, as a poll suggests support is ebbing away.