A 13-year-old son of a US Air Force colonel dies in hospital in Oxfordshire after suffering gunshot wounds to the head.

A crew of British and Irish rowers are adrift in a life raft in the Atlantic after capsizing while trying to row from Morocco to Barbados, coastguards say.

The government's latest public sector pension changes will make "little or no difference" to their long-term cost, a think-tank says.

The Association of British Insurers estimates that up to 200,000 flood-prone homes could face insurance problems next year.

London's Theatreland enjoyed record box office sales in 2011 for an eighth consecutive year, according to figures released by the Society of London Theatre.

Ministers cut the value of thousands of vocational qualifications, ending their recognition in the school league tables.

From May all inspections of child protection services will be unannounced and last two weeks.

Proposed changes to the NHS in England have created an "unholy mess" which has hurt the health service, according to the editors of three leading journals.