Nearly 250 prison officers are being bussed across the country to fill gaps at other jails because staff shortages are so acute this Christmas, according to leaked documents.

Lord Sugar's adviser on The Apprentice Nick Hewer announces he is to leave the BBC One show after a decade.

Record numbers of students entered university this year, but the gender gap has never been wider, according to annual admission figures.

Up to 28 doctors took their own lives between 2005 and 2013 while being investigated by the General Medical Council, an independent review of cases has found.

Kurdish forces in northern Iraq say they have broken Islamic State's siege of Mount Sinjar, claiming their biggest victory yet against the militants.

Eight children are found dead at a house in the Manoora suburb of Cairns, Australia, say police, reportedly after a mass stabbing.

The government's Access to Work scheme is only helping a "minority" of disabled people stay in, or gain, employment, a group of MPs says.

Women could be allowed to serve in British infantry units for the first time by 2016, the BBC understands, subject to a review into female soldiers.