This weekend's episodes of Strictly Come Dancing and The X Factor helped create the biggest Sunday night TV ratings for nearly 20 years.

Formula One drivers face tougher sanctions during the 2011 season under new measures to clamp down on driving standards.

The European websites of the online retailer Amazon go temporarily offline, amid ongoing threats against major sites by pro-Wikileak activists.

A counter-terrorism publicity campaign reminding the public of the "real and serious" threat to the UK is launched by police.

Scottish manufacturing grew at its fastest rate since August, according to the latest survey of business managers.

A man is charged with the murder of a 34-year-old woman who was found asphyxiated at a house in north London.

British police search a property in Bedfordshire as part of the inquiry into Saturday's suspected suicide bombing in Stockholm.

Fierce winds, heavy rain and snow lash the eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries for a second successive day.