A committee of MPs is demanding changes to the way their expenses are handled saying the current independently run system is "damaging" parliament .

A growing proportion of surveyors believe that economic uncertainty is holding back housing market activity.

The recruitment outlook during the first quarter of 2012 is at its lowest level for three years, according to a survey by Manpower.

Ambulances in England are facing major delays dropping off emergency patients at hospital, the BBC has learnt.

Plans to revitalise struggling high streets and shopping centres will be revealed by Mary Portas.

At least 15 children have been killed in a school bus crash in China, with officials revealing some of them drowned and others suffocated.

Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters cause major disruption to three ports on the US West Coast, shutting terminals and blocking lorries.

The provision of health MOTs for the over-40s in England has been "slow and patchy", says a UK charity.