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Anti-Neet scheme claims GCSE success 27 Aug 2013 | 03:59 pm

A pilot payment-by-results scheme to prevent young people from slipping out of education and into unemployment is claiming success in GCSE results.

In pictures: Football on the water 27 Aug 2013 | 03:09 pm

Match played in a river in the Cotswolds

Businesses 'not convinced' by HS2 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm

A leading business lobby group calls on the government to abandon its controversial high-speed rail link, calling the project a "grand folly".

VIDEO: 'This is my job': Life on rubbish dump 27 Aug 2013 | 10:51 am

Nomsa Maseko reports from the town of Viljoenskroon in South Africa, where a massive rubbish dump has become a source of survival for the local community.

What drives a young man to violent crime? 27 Aug 2013 | 07:46 am

What drives a young man to violent crime?

What was behind the Bristol bus boycott? 27 Aug 2013 | 04:38 am

What was behind the Bristol bus boycott?

In pictures: Day two of Carnival 26 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm

Hundreds of thousands of people attend the second day of Notting Hill Carnival, believed to be Europe's biggest street festival.

Palestinians killed in W Bank clash 26 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm

Three Palestinians have been shot dead in clashes with Israeli forces in Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank, Palestinian sources say.

Day in pictures: 26 August 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 04:35 pm

Twenty-four hours of news: 26 August

In pictures: Somaliland goes crazy for books 26 Aug 2013 | 04:50 am

Celebrating literature and the arts in Somaliland

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