Health Secretary Andrew Lansley defends a welcome message played on a continuous loop in hospitals in which he tells patients their care "really matters to me".

Despite a change of government at the weekend, Spain pays sharply higher rates as it borrows money from markets.

Microsoft is investigating after some Xbox Live users say they have been scammed into handing over personal account details.

Uniforms for volunteer Games Makers and technical officials for the 2012 Olympics are revealed by the Games organisers.

Sepa gives the MoD until the end of February to devise a plan to make safe a Fife beach contaminated with radioactivity.

Computer firm Hewlett-Packard unveils a 91% fall in fourth-quarter profits as it swallows a $3.3bn (£2.1bn) charge to close down its WebOS business.

Overall median survival rates for cancer in England and Wales have increased from one year to nearly six in the last four decades, figures show.

The government's lack of strategy on nuclear research threatens its long-term plans for electricity generation, according to a House of Lords committee.