The government's budget forecast of a return to fiscal health by 2014 hinges on 'unobservable' growth potential says the IFS.

Police dog teams are to join the search for Sian O'Callaghan, who vanished after leaving a nightclub in Wiltshire at the weekend.

The Athena Tennis Girl model is re-united with her sexy poster to promote lawn tennis as an art subject.

A chemical in the brain controls sexual preference in mice, according to scientists in China.

Two workers at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are taken to hospital after being exposed to high levels of radiation, say officials.

A long-standing conjecture that our sense of smell may be due the the effects of quantum physics is gaining ground, thanks to new measurements.

At least 10 people have been killed after Syrian police opened fire on people protesting against the deaths of anti-government demonstrators in Deraa, witnesses say.

A BBC survey of schoolchildren has given a unique insight into the daily lives, fears and aspirations of a generation of young people in the UK.