Germany finds itself 55bn euros richer after discovering an accounting error at Hypo Real Estate, the bank it nationalised in 2009.

The number of new cancer cases in the UK could rise by 45% by 2030 to more than 430,000 a year, research suggests.

An MP describes how he waited for police behind a locked door during a constituency surgery at a mosque after he was threatened by a group of men.

Most people in the UK are to enjoy an extra hour in bed, as clocks go back to mark the end of British Summer Time.

Research suggesting pay for the directors of the UK's top businesses rose 50% over the past year receives a robust government response.

A medal for local heroes that was scrapped in 1993 as part of a bid to make the honours system "classless" is to be revived, the prime minister says.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is “minded to revoke” the licence of a loans broker which claims to process 50,000 applications a month.

Taking a daily dose of aspirin can reduce the incidence of bowel cancer in people at high risk of the disease, scientists say.