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

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

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

Supermarket chain Asda says it will create 7,500 new jobs in the UK next year, half of them from new store openings.

Former detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba are set to be paid millions of pounds in compensation by the government, the BBC understands.

Former Labour immigration minister Phil Woolas is to begin a legal bid to overturn a ruling that he should be banned from politics for three years.

Violent protests break out in Haiti, where some people accuse UN peacekeepers of causing a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 900.

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