George Osborne will raise the income tax allowance to give 25 million people a cut of around £45 a year in the Budget, the BBC learns.

Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi appears at a recently bombed site in Tripoli and says "we will be victorious in the end".

Lighting is restored in the control room of a badly-damaged Japanese nuclear reactor, raising hopes of reconnecting vital power to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

A copyright deal between Google and publishers over the web firm's publication of books online is torpedoed by a US court.

A teenager from Salford describes his amazement after being quoted almost £33,000 to insure his second-hand car.

Doncaster's failed Earth Centre environmental visitor attraction is sold off to become an activity centre for school children.

At least four people have died after security forces fired on protesters outside a mosque in the Syrian city of Deraa, human rights activists say.

More bowel cancers are being detected earlier after the introduction of a screening programme in England.