Oxford University appears to be paving the way for raising fees to the maximum 9,000 per year, as a Cambridge group recommends doing the same.

The Middle East peace process could become a "casualty" of the calls for change sweeping across the Arab world, the foreign secretary warns.

Donors from the financial sector gave £11.4m to the Conservatives last year - some 50.8% of all the money the party received.

US authorities investigate the death of a UK woman who had allegedly been injected with silicone in a hotel room "buttocks-enhancement" procedure.

A portrait of the muse who transformed painter Pablo Picasso's life is sold for £25.2m ($40.7m) at Sotheby's auction house in London.

Seamer Chris Tremlett will join England's World Cup squad as a travelling reserve as cover for their injury-hit bowling attack.

The freezing weather in December resulted in £1.4bn of insurance claims on property and vehicles in the UK, figures show.

A Southern Sudanese minister has been shot dead inside his ministry building in the capital, Juba, an army spokesman says.