There are four times as many young carers in the UK than previously officially recognised, figures published by the BBC suggest.

The social networking site Facebook ramps up competition with a modern messaging system to rival old fashioned email.

Householders who live in period properties can dramatically reduce their energy bills by closing their curtains or shutters at dusk.

Manchester United's American owners are to pay off their high interest Payment-in-Kind (PIK) loans, estimated to be worth around £220m.

Baroness Newlove, whose husband Garry was murdered in 2007, leads a "call to action" for people to work together to make neighbourhoods safer.

London's Natural History Museum suspends a planned expedition to a remote region of Paraguay after protests that it might disturb one of the world's last uncontacted tribes.

At least 60 people are killed and others trapped as a multi-storey building collapses in a busy Delhi neighbourhood.

People who are exposed regularly to others' tobacco smoke are at greater risk of hearing loss, experts discover.