US tycoon Donald Trump says he will not be running as a Republican candidate for the US presidency in 2012, ending weeks of speculation.

The UK Border Agency has a "lack of control" over the system used by multinational companies to bring their own foreign staff into the UK, say MPs.

TV retail guru Mary Portas is to carry out a review aimed at halting the "decline of the high street", the government announces

A plan to enshrine in law a promise to spend 0.7% of gross national income on overseas aid is challenged by Defence Secretary Liam Fox.

Police are called to reports of trouble involving West Ham players and supporters at the club's end of season dinner at a top London hotel.

The government will set out plans to reduce greenhouse gases and change the way energy is produced when it publishes its carbon budget.

The government will unveil its plans later to replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber.

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is held at New York's notorious Rikers Island jail on sexual assault charges, after being denied bail as a flight risk.