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

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

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.

Toyota Motor car owners in the US can pursue claims that the carmaker caused the value of their vehicle to fall, a federal judge rules.

An inquest will resume into the deaths of five British soldiers killed in an attack by a rogue Afghan policeman at a checkpoint in Helmand in 2009.

An Israeli couple name their baby daughter Like, taking inspiration from a social networking site, reports say.

About 400 British passengers are flown home from Sweden after the cruise ship they were on developed technical problems in the Baltic.

The UK Consumer Prices Index annual rate of inflation rose to 4.5% in April, up from 4% in March, due to rising transport costs.