Chancellor George Osborne has recorded a special - rather flirtatious - message for a BBC presenter after she admitted on air to having erotic dreams about him.

Barcelona talisman Lionel Messi scores two late goals to put his side in control after the first leg of their bad-tempered Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid.

Search teams say they have discovered part of a flight recorder from the Air France plane that went down in 2009 off the coast of Brazil, but not its key data section.

The number of pupils being educated at UK independent schools falls by over 5,000, but the number of overseas pupils rises, a census shows.

Three-quarters of people who apply for sickness benefit are found fit to work or drop their claims before they are completed, official figures show.

A renegade Ivory Coast militia leader whose forces helped the country's new president gain power has been killed by government troops.

Customers must now be told about energy price rises 30 days in advance, rather than being notified up to two months after the event.

Final preparations are taking place ahead of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in London on Friday.